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Savannah Music Festival Gears Up for Unprecedented 2023
Event with Expanded Outdoor Main Stage at Trustees’ Garden
C elebrated for
distinctive
live perfor
mances spanning American
and international roots mu
sic, jazz, classical, jam, rock
and blues genres in beautiful,
historic Savannah, Georgia,
the Savannah Music Festival
(SMF) is gearing up for a stel
lar 2023 season, which runs
from March 23 through April
8,2023.
Tickets start at S31
and can be purchased online
at savannahmusic fe stival.org,
by phone at 912.525.5050
or in person at the Savannah
Box Office, located at 216 E.
Broughton St.
The 17-day festi
val has been raising the bar
each year by showcasing an
exceptional cross-section of
award-winning icons, trail-
blazing contemporaries and
dynamic newcomers in unique
Joseph Conyers
courtesy of Artist
locations throughout Savan
nah. This year, the expansive
outdoor venue Trustees’ Gar
den will accommodate nearly
2,500 patrons, featuring mul
tiple artists on the main stage
Christone “Kingfish” Ingram
by Rory Doyle
each day along with family
activities and local food truck
vendors in an open, field-like
atmosphere.
On Saturday, March
25 and Sunday, March 26, liv
ing legend and blues pioneer
Buddy Guy will perform live
on his “Damn Right Farewell”
tour with special guests Chri
stone “Kingfish” Ingram, Eric
Gales, King Solomon Hicks
and Jontavious Willis. The
Tedeschi Trucks Band will
play the venue on Wednesday,
March 29 after a four-year hi
atus from the festival, while
New Orleans jam favorites
Galactic teams up with funk
maestro Cory Wong and the
jazz, R&B and pop fusion of
Nate Smith + KINFOLK for
a special live performance on
Sunday, April 2.
“We’re thrilled to
host a series of high-energy
outdoor concerts at Trustees’
Garden this year featuring top
blues, rock and funk artists,”
said Savannah Music Festival
Artistic Director Ryan Mc-
Maken.
Continued on Page 11
Jack and Jill of America, Inc. Celebrated 85th Founders’ Day
Washington, DC was
the scene the weekend of Janu
ary 27th where Mothers, Teens,
Children and Fathers from Jack
and Jill Chapters throughout
the country, along with Nation
al and Regional officers, past
and present, gathered under
the theme “ And Tell Them We
Are Still Rising,” to commem
orate the 85TH Anniversary of
Jack and jill of America, Inc.,
which was founded in Phil
adelphia, PA, on January 24,
1938. Under the leadership of
27th National President Kor-
nisha McGill Brown, those in
attendance participated in a full
weekend of events that paid
tribute to founding members
Marion Stubbs Thomas and
Louis Truitt Dench, friends
in the Philadelphia, PA, com
munity who had the vision to
establish an organization of
Mothers to focus on the social,
cultural, educational and ser
vant-leadership development
of their children during a time
when equal access to oppor-
15th National President Shirley Barber James (center)
with Marion “Patsy” Fleming & Doug Fleming, daughter
and grandson of Founder Marion Stubbs Thomas
tunities were not available
to African Americans. From
that first meeting in the home
of Marion Stubbs Thomas in
1938 with 21 mothers present,
Jack and Jill of America, Inc.
now boasts over 262 chapters
composed of a membership
of more than 12,000 members
throughout the USA.
Weekend activities
included tours of the Jack
and Jill National Headquar
ters and historic landmarks in
Washington, DC, such as the
National Museum of African
American History and Culture,
the Frederick Douglass home,
the Lincoln Memorial and the
Martin Luther King, Jr. Memo
rial. “1938 Revisited” was the
theme for the opening night
event where the attire was
Furs, Flats and Hats from the
1930’s era. The Founders’ Day
Celebration Brunch on Satur
day was the major highlight of
the weekend, where we were
graced with the presence of
honored guests Marion “Pat
sy” Fleming and Doug Flem
ing, the daughter and grand
son of Founder Marion Stubbs
Thomas, as well as several
family members of Co-Found
er Louise Truitt Dench. Also
in attendance was Jack and Jill
Mom Sandra Douglass Mor
gan, president of the Las Vegas
Raiders, the first Black female
in NFL History to hold the po
sition.
Continued on Page 10
On Anniversary of Bloody Sunday, Biden and Harris Vow Continued
Push for Voting Rights
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent@StacyBrownMedia
To protect one of
America’s most precious liber
ties — the right to vote — 600
courageous people marched
out of Selma, Alabama 58
years ago. However, their
peaceful demonstration on the
Edmund Pettus Bridge was met
with brutal force. John Lewis,
a young civil rights leader, and
congressman, was beaten and
had his skull fractured when he
was 25.
“Those brave march
ers were pushed back, but they
continued to march forward,”
Vice President Kamala Harris
stated ahead of the March 5
commemoration ceremony at
the foot of the famous bridge.
Harris said the courage of
those civil rights marchers and
their sacrifice inspired many to
join the fight to put an end to
poll taxes, literacy tests, and
other forms of discrimination
that blocked Black Ameri
cans’ access to the ballot box.
“They achieved passage of the
landmark Voting Rights Act of
1965, which enshrined critical
protections for voting rights in
federal law,” the vice president
stated.
But the Shelby Coun
ty Supreme Court decision in
2013 undermined the Voting
Rights Act, making it more dif
ficult to prevent discrimination.
Harris argued that this has led
to a renewed attack on the right
to vote in the United States in
recent years. “Extremists have
worked to dismantle the voting
protections that generations of
civil rights leaders and advo
cates fought tirelessly to win,”
Harris said. “They have purged
voters from the rolls. They
have closed polling places.
They have made it a crime to
give water to people standing
in line.”
Representatives Terri
Sewell of Alabama and James
Clybum of South Carolina, as
well as NNPA President and
CEO Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis
Jr., Reverend Jesse Jackson,
civil rights leader Charles
Mauldin, and Martin Luther
King III, were among the many
dignitaries who attended the
annual pilgrimage to the Pettus
Bridge.
Continued on Page 11
WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH:
Mary Church Terrell
Mary Church Ter
rell (Mary Eliza Church) was
bom in Memphis Tennessee on
September 23, 1863 to Robert
Reed Church and Louisa Ayres.
Both of her parents were freed
slaves with mixed racial an
cestry. Her father, Robert Reed
Church, was a businessman
who invested in real estate.
He made his fortune buying
property in Memphis following
the Yellow Fever Epidemic of
1878 and was considered the
first African-American million
aire in the South. Her mother,
Louisa Ayres, was considered
one of the first African-Amer
ican women to establish and
maintain her own hair salon.
Mary Church Ter
rell’s parents moved her to
Oberlin, Ohio for her educa
tion from eighth grade through
high school. She then attend
ed Oberlin College, the first
college in the United States to
admit African-American and
female students, and became
one of the first African-Amer
ican women to graduate with a
Bachelor’s degree in 1884 (af
ter taking the four-year “gen
tleman’s course” over the two-
year “ladies course”). In 1888,
she also became one of the first
two black women to earn an
MA (Master of Arts degree)
after receiving her master’s in
Education from Oberlin.
In 1887, Terrell
moved to Washington, D.C. and
accepted a teaching position in
the Latin Department at the M
Street School (the nation’s first
African-American public high
school), now known as the Paul
Laurence Dunbar High School.
In 1888, she took a leave of
absence from teaching, studied
in Europe for two years and be
came fluent in French, German,
and Italian. She married Robert
“Berto” Heberton Terrell, who
also taught at the M Street
School, in 1891 and was forced
to resign from her position at
the school. However, she was
later appointed superintendent
of the M Street High School in
1895, becoming the first wom
an to hold the post.
Terrell was a charter
member of the Colored Wom
en’s League (Washington,
D.C.) which was formed in
1892 along with Helen Appo
Cook, Ida B. Wells-Bamett,
Mary Jane Patterson, Evelyn
Shaw, Charlotte Forten Grim-
ke and Anna Julie Cooper. The
service-oriented club promoted
the social progress and best
interests of the African Amer
ican community including el
evating the lives of educated
Black women outside of the
church and creating a training
program and kindergarten be
fore they were included in the
public schools of Washington,
D.C. Terrell also helped form
the National Association of
Colored Women (NACW -
1896), which was born from
the combination of the Col
ored Women’s League, the
Federation of Afro-American
Women, and hundreds of oth
er organizations with similar
goals becoming the first secular
national organization dedicated
to the livelihoods of American
Black women. She served as
its first national president and
was re-elected, serving from
1896-1901. Terrell later be
came the honorary president
Mary Church Terrell
after declining a third re-elec
tion. These successes along
with many other achievements,
landed Mary an appointment to
the District of Columbia Board
of Education (1895-1906)
where she became the first Af
rican-American woman in the
United States to be appointed
to the school board of a major
city.
Through her suffrag
ist activism with the National
American Woman Suffrage
Association (NAWSA), she
became associated with both
Susan B. Anthony and Eliza
beth Cady Stanton. Mary was
one of the few African-Amer
ican women allowed to attend
NAWSA’s meetings and in do
ing so spoke of the injustices
and issues within the Afri
can-American community like
lynching, disenfranchisement,
and educational reform. At
the NAWSA biennial session
in February 1898, she gave
a well-received address enti
tled “The Progress of Colored
Women” in which she spoke
about the “double burden”
of sex and race that African
American women dealt with in
comparison to white women.
This led to her being invited
back as an unofficial black am
bassador for the Association.
Mary Church Terrell
worked closely with Freder
ick Douglass on several civil
rights campaigns, including
an 1893 petition for a hearing
of a statement regarding cases
where black people in certain
states were not receiving due
process of law. Douglass also
convinced her to stay active in
public life when she was con
sidering retiring from activism
to focus on her family.
In 1909, Terrell was
one of two black women (in
cluding Ida B. Wells-Bamett)
invited to attend the first or
ganizational meeting of the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peo
ple (NAACP) where she be
came a founding member. She
also helped organize the Delta
Sigma Theta Sorority (1913-
1914), helping pen its oath and
becoming an honorary mem
ber.
Mary Terrell was also
a writer who often used the pen
name “Euphemia Kirk” to pub
lish in both the white and black
press. She wrote for many
newspapers, an autobiography,
and was published in several
journals.
Continued on Page 9
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