Georgia is fifth or sixth in the country for human trafficking, depending on the source. And Savannah is near the heart of the statewide network.
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Bomba Con Buya: a celebration of Puerto Rican music
‘Bomba is the oldest surviving genre in Puerto Rico, probably first documented in about the 1790s’
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Savannah State celebrates fifth year of Confucius Institute
Led by Peggy Blood and Dengfeng Wu, the organization works hard to further the mission of the institution and teach Chinese culture to American students
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Taking back the night
Take Back the Night was created to help women feel safer in their environments
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Savannah Traffick Jam addresses growing problem
The fourth annual Savannah Traffick Jam is an all-day conference that invites experts in human trafficking to share their stories with the community
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MLK Day Parade and Festivities 2019
A bit of cold weather didn’t deter Savannah from celebrating the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Jan. 21, 2019.
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Dance, art, poetry and learning at the 29th annual Savannah Black Heritage Festival
FEBRUARY is designated Black History Month, though it must be acknowledged that African-American contributions to our country’s culture, infrastructure and institutions far exceed any tidy timeline. However, it does give […]
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Collective Face goes down the rabbit hole with Harvey
THE Collective Face Theatre Ensemble welcomes Savannahians to its own mad, mad, mad, mad world as Mary Chase’s 1944 delightfully cracked comedy classic Harvey comes to the Kennedy Fine Arts […]
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Pour yourself a cup of ambition
The cast is large by community theatre standards—18 people all told, not to mention an orchestra
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Help end human exploitation at Savannah Traffick Jam on Jan. 28
LAST November, a whopping 83 percent of Georgia voters approved the Safe Harbor Act, which established a dedicated fund to help the youngest victims of sex trafficking. The overwhelming passage […]
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Editor’s Note: Armstrong/Georgia Southern merger brings fear, and many questions
The Board of Regents apparently learned a lesson from the last time Armstrong was in merger talks: Keep it all under wraps until the last possible second.
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Year in Review: Theatre
AT A national and social level, 2016 was a year of significant loss. Here in Savannah, the theatre community lost two vital stages—Ampersand, the downtown restaurant/bar/venue that acted as Savannah […]