‘Mine is not a rags-to-riches story. Yet among African-Americans, there was no distinction between class or income during Jim Crow years. We endured the city’s separate and subpar facilities.’
Orlando Montoya
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Group promotes uphill battle to ‘unmerge’ Armstrong
The thinking behind this new group is simple. Nobody in Savannah wanted this merger.
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Kurtis Purtee: Keeping it hyperlocal in race for Sixth District
When I met Kurtis Purtee, the man hoping to oust Thomas in December’s runoff election for City Council, at a Savannah Mall coffee shop, it was supposed to be his day off
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Regina Thomas: ‘I intend to win’
‘I don’t have a clique. I don’t have anyone controlling me. I’m not a puppet. I’m not a prisoner to the party I’m in’
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First City Pride Center: Savannah’s LGBT organizations merge
‘What we’re doing isn’t enough and by uniting rather than siloing our efforts, we can accomplish more’
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Okefenokee in peril
NATIVE AMERICANS gave the mist-enshrouded and black-watered Okefenokee Swamp its fearsome name: Land of Trembling Earth, referring not to earthquakes, but unstable peat deposits that line the swamp floor and […]
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Beverly Willett’s ‘midlife resurrection’
It’s the story that life gave her, one she pitched and pitched and pitched to rejection after rejection
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Zach Powers launches a new book and a new season of Seersucker Live
Like all good conspiracy theories, Zach’s idea, the book’s central premise, relies on a kernel of truth, that being the secrecy that surrounded the Soviet space program
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Kesha Gibson-Carter’s moment
IN A year beset by leadership departures at some of Savannah’s top institutions — Telfair Museums, Savannah Music Festival, the Philharmonic and City Hall, to name a few — the […]
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The sounds of the sea
Yes, they recorded the sounds of a tropical storm underwater. It sounds much like it does on your roof.
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Orange Crush: Justice is slow but inexorable
I’m happy to report that this year’s Orange Crush has brought some needed changes that make the City of Tybee Island, at least officially, legally and on paper, less racist.
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Preventing the death spiral: CAT looks to the future
CHATHAM AREA TRANSIT officials last week unveiled two radically different concepts for the bus system’s future. It’s part of the agency’s attempt to stem years of declining ridership and prevent […]