Atlanta
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No Signs of Foul Play in Death of CDC Employee Timothy Cunningham
Officials say they’ve found no signs of foul play in the death of Timothy Cunningham, a CDC employee who disappeared nearly two months ago. Cunningham’s body was discovered Tuesday, pulled from the Chattahoochee River in Northwest Atlanta. In a press conference Thursday afternoon, Fulton County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Jan Gorniak told reporters that the…
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Timothy Cunningham, the CDC Employee Missing Since February, Has Been Found Dead
Atlanta police say a body pulled from the Chattahoochee River in Atlanta this week has been positively identified as Timothy Cunningham, an employee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who mysteriously vanished almost two months ago. As the Washington Post reports, authorities have yet to provide further details about the discovery of Cunningham’s…
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Atlanta Charter School Apologizes for 2nd-Grade Blackface Show in the Year of Our Lord 2018
This week, between that Heineken ad, Roseanne’s nonacting ass being back on TV (notably on the same network pandering to “unheard white working-class America” and yet nixing a Black-ish episode about NFL players kneeling) and now a minstrel show at an elementary school, I think wypipo are pranking us with overt racism followed by, “Who,…
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Who Hacked the ATL? Hijackers Are Holding Atlanta for Ransom and Time Is Running Out
For the past five days, a mysterious group has been holding the city of Atlanta for ransom as federal authorities fight a computer attack that has crippled the city. Federal, local and state authorities are frantically trying to find a solution. More important, in the spirit of transparency, the city unwittingly committed a tactical blunder…
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This White Woman’s Discrimination Lawsuit Against the Atlanta Hawks Feels Eerily Familiar
Trigger warning: Before going any further, we feel it is our duty to forewarn our black readers that this story contains details some may find laughable and could be construed by our African-American audience as the simple reality of being a black person in corporate America. But this story is different. The acts are far…
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The Best Thing About Atlanta, the Best Show on Television
During “Sportin’ Waves,” the episode of Atlanta that aired Thursday night, Earn received a generous and unexpected payout from Darius’ puppy-related investments in season 1. Armed with this unanticipated cash, the still-homeless and aggressively underemployed Earn invests it in a gift card scheme suggested by Tracy, a recently paroled houseguest of Paperboi’s, who claims that…
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Donald Glover Talks About His Assist With the Black Panther Script
If, during one of the three times you caught Black Panther this weekend, you stayed through the end of the credits, you may have noticed a special shoutout to Donald Glover and his brother Stephen in the “Special Thanks” section. The Glovers earned the acknowledgment by providing director Ryan Coogler with script notes on the…
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Family, Police Desperately Search for CDC Employee Who Vanished Without a Trace
Atlanta police are searching for a doctor working for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who disappeared last week without a trace. Timothy Cunningham, a 35-year-old alumnus of Morehouse and Harvard, was recently promoted to commander under the U.S. Health Service Corps at the CDC, people close to him told Fox 5 Atlanta. Cunningham…
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Watch: Here’s an Exclusive Clip From Atlanta’s ‘Robbin’ Season’
Atlanta is back Thursday, March 1, on FX. We were all reeling from excitement and wanted more when the new trailer for the show dropped recently; luckily, The Root has an exclusive clip in celebration of the highly awaited second season! With an innocent and almost chilling cover of Rae Sremmurd’s hit “No Type,” this…