As our city offers a polite plea to forgive any inconvenience caused by prettifying the lilies, some of its residents unapologetically push on to address the roots of crime, economic injustice and racial iniquity in our community.
Jessica Leigh Lebos
Community Editor Jessica Leigh Lebos has been writing about interesting people, vexing issues and anything involving free food for more than 20 years. She introduces herself at cocktail parties as southern by marriage.
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Where the dogs are
Each artist has a formidable following, which will surely make for a feisty auction.
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Local food activists collaborate and revitalize at Canyon Ranch Institute
Joining forces as C-Port Youth Empowered Savannah, the team was one of four awarded a scholarship to attend workshops and strategy sessions.
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A Most Auspicious Time
Like many unions that don’t involve officiation by an Elvis impersonator, Jon and Anita’s nuptials were planned around the sacred traditions of their families.
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Abeni Cultural Arts’ Kokumo Dance Collective goes deeper with ‘After Dark’
SINCE 2006, Abeni Cultural Arts has enlivened Savannah’s performance art landscape with thematic depth and soulful choreography. From Langston Hughes’ Black Nativity and the recent The Art of Social Change […]
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Who’s leading the library?
“There is a huge stake here in what a library can do for the citizens of a community”
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Rediscover Conrad Aiken at unique event
Death is never an ending, death is a change; Death is beautiful, for death is strange; Death is one dream out of another flowing. —Conrad Aiken, House of Dust FOR SURE, Conrad […]
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Hey, H&M, it’s complicated
It’s been surreal to watch mall staples inhabit former mom-and-pop spots in some kind of Invasion of the Commerce Snatchers. Yet who can deny that brightly-lit stores full of pretty things are better for the city than shuttered storefronts?
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Who is your favorite community champion?
KNOW someone who deserves some recognition for their good works? Maybe it’s a teacher who takes extra time with her low-income students or a social worker who does far more […]
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The Sucky Life of the American Teenager
The theory goes that our beloved children act ever more rotten in order to prepare us for their impending departure from the nest.
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How to be a better white person right now
Of course that’s the irony—and maybe the entire point: I have the prerogative of ducking difficult conversations with myself and others about racism indefinitely.
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Stay Outta Port Wentworth, Union Scum
AS A UNION organizer, Ben Speight knows exactly what the law is when it comes to handing out materials. The Atlanta-based director of Teamsters Local 728 has been informing workers […]