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10 The Savannah Tribune • Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Savannah Music Festival to Present Special Late-
Night Performance by Eric Culberson Band
at Trustees’ Garden on Saturday, March 25
The Savannah Music
Festival will present a bonus,
late-night jam session by the
Eric Culberson Band, a Sa
vannah, Ga.- based blues trio
known for delivering high-en
ergy shows. The band’s show
case of sizzling electric blues
will immediately follow living
legend and blues pioneer Bud
dy Guy’s first of two Savannah
Music Festival performanc
es as part of his “Damn Right
Farewell” tour featuring spe
cial guests Eric Gales and King
Solomon Hicks. The post-con-
cert performance is available
at no additional cost to all who
attend Guy’s concert.
Inspired by gui
tar-slinging bluesmen includ
ing Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters,
B .B. King and Albert King, The
Eric Culberson Band is widely
recognized for their energy, in
tensity and spontaneity in live
performances. Culberson first
performed as a solo blues art
ist for Kingsnake Records and
released two critically-praised
albums under the label, includ
ing Blues is My Religion and
No Rules to the Game.
The live concert will
be held Saturday, March 25,
2023, 10 p.m. at Metalworks
Building at Trustees’ Garden.
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Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated
Statement on Florida House Bill 999
National President
Elsie Cooke-Holmes released
the following statement on
Florida House Bill 999
and academic freedom:
Delta Sigma Theta
Sorority, Incorporated fervent
ly opposes legislative efforts in
Florida and other states to limit
academic freedom and under
mine historical accuracy in ed
ucation.
Journalistic endeav
ors such as the New York Times
Magazine’s 1619 Project and
academic concepts like Criti
cal Race Theory have launched
a new era of scholarship that
questions how governmental
policies and cultural norms of
America’s past have informed
present-day wealth and health
disparities. Instead of engaging
in rigorous academic debates
of these ideas, propagandists
have launched insidious cam
paigns to wipe out nearly all
academic inquiry into racism
and sexism in school districts,
colleges, and universities.
The Florida House
of Representatives recently
passed House Bill 999, legis
lation that expressly prohibits
any programs or campus activ
ities that advocate for diversi
ty, equity, and inclusion and
bans “the use of pedagogical
methodology associated with
Critical Theory, including, but
not limited to, Critical Race
Theory, Critical Race Studies,
Critical Ethnic Studies, Radi
cal Feminist Theory, Radical
Gender Theory, Queer Theory,
Critical Social Justice or Inter-
sectionality.” Critics of the bill
and its companion, Senate Bill
266, point out that the bill’s
vague language could lead to
the elimination of state fund
ing for Florida’s Historically
Black Colleges and Universi
ties (HBCUs) and threaten the
existence of historically Black
organizations such as Delta
Sigma Theta and other mem
bers of the National Pan-Hel
lenic Council on Florida’s uni
versity campuses.
Delta Sigma Theta’s
more than 1,000 chapters will
engage in advocacy efforts
to ensure a complete picture
of American history - in all
its complexity and contradic
tions - is presented in our K-12
schools, libraries, and universi
ties. We are also mobilized to
fight to protect the interests of
Black academics, students, and
organizations on campuses in
states that have targeted them
for censorship and exclusion.
No great society has
ever flourished by shutting
down academic inquiry and
distorting history. James Bald
win once said, “Not everything
that is faced can be changed,
but nothing can be changed un
til it is faced.”
America must face
its history to build a future that
lives up to its ideals and prom
ises.
‘Georgia’s Full Story’ Project to Identify Black
Heritage Sites, Stories Statewide
The Historic Preser
vation Division of the Georgia
Department of Community Af
fairs (DCA) announces a new
project to support the identifi
cation and documentation of
Black heritage sites statewide.
Georgia’s Full Story
will identify places and uncov
er stories associated with Black
heritage not recognized in past
historic preservation efforts.
The final product will be an up
dated resource guide that will
facilitate more nominations of
Black heritage to the National
Register of Historic Places in
Georgia.
The year-long project
is funded through the Historic
Preservation Fund and admin
istered by the National Park
Service. It was awarded to the
Savannah-based consulting
firm, Ethos Preservation. Con
tributions are requested from
the public utilizing a new on
line portal.
Through careful re
search and contributions from
the public, Georgia’s Full Story
will provide guidance and nar
ratives to fill in important gaps
in existing historic preservation
resources for Black heritage.
A broad history
will honor the contributions
of Black Georgians from the
pre-colonial period to present.
Frameworks for the identifica
tion of historic resource types
and themes related to Black
experiences will contextualize
properties within Georgia’s
broader history as well.
Finally, the report will
offer guidance on how to eval
uate Black historic resources
for nomination to the National
Register. The final product will
be added to the Historic Pres
ervation Division’s collection
of more than a dozen statewide
context reports for Georgia’s
historic resources.
The Ethos Preserva
tion team will be guided by an
advisory committee of profes
sionals from across the state
with knowledge of Black his
toric resources and hands-on
experience with the preserva
tion of Black heritage.
“The Black experi
ence in Georgia is a founda
tional part of Georgia’s history
as a whole, and yet so many
of the buildings, structures,
objects, and sites associated
with the Black experience have
previously been overlooked as
resources of historic signifi
cance,” Jennifer Dixon, direc
tor of the Historic Preservation
Division at DCA, said. “Geor
gia’s Full Story will create an
updated statewide African
American Context Statement
and make it easier to nominate
resources to the National Reg
ister of Historic Places. It will
not only open these resources
to this honorific designation,
but also to eligibility for grants
and financial incentives to sup
port their preservation.”
Like all statewide
historic context reports, Geor
gia’s Full Story will be avail
able publicly for a wide variety
of history-and-preservation-fo-
cused projects. The resources
available in these reports pro
vide individuals and profes
sionals with tools to identify
and contextualize the signifi
cance of their properties when
applying for the National Reg
ister of Historic Places.
The project team will
connect with people and com
munities across Georgia via an
online tool, thus aiding in ef
forts to honor the untold stories
of Black Georgians.
This online tool will
allow all interested parties to
share family and community
stories; digital copies of old
pictures; newspaper articles;
or photos of buildings, sites,
or artifacts that speak to Black
experiences in Georgia.
The website is open
to the public and people are
encouraged to upload their sto
ries. The project team is hoping
for widespread participation
from communities and individ
uals to ensure many stories are
told.
“Acknowledging that
past efforts have not always
been inclusive, we are re
questing the public share their
stories, lived experiences and
knowledge of Black historic
sites to ensure we are capturing
Georgia’s full story” Briana
Paxton, with Ethos Preserva
tion, said. “It is paramount to
Georgia’s future that we rec
ognize and facilitate the pres
ervation of Black heritage for
the next generation.”
Visit www.georgias-
fullstory.com to learn more
about the project and how to
contribute.
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MAR 30 2023
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12419 Largo Drive
Savannah, GA 31419
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