georgia
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White Georgia Cop Faces Voluntary Manslaughter Charge in Death of Black Motorist
For at least the second time this week, a white police officer has been charged in the death of an unarmed black person. Kingsland, Ga., Police Officer Zechariah Presley was charged with voluntary manslaughter in the death of Anthony Green, a black motorist who was shot while running away from Presley. CBS News reports that…
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Georgia Man Sentenced to Life in Prison 35 Years After Racially Motivated Murder of Black Man
After 35 years of evading justice, a white Georgia man will spend life in prison for the murder of a black man. On Tuesday, Frank Gebhardt, now 60, was convicted of murder in the 1983 death of Timothy Coggins. Witnesses say Coggins was stabbed 30 times and dragged behind a pickup truck for dating a…
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Meet the 1st Black Brewers of Georgia
Here’s something you don’t see every day: a black-owned brewery. Out of the 66 breweries in Georgia, only one is owned by black people: Down Home Brewing Co. Chris Reeves and William Allen Moore, the two men behind the brewery, started canning beer in March 2018 at BlueTarp, Georgia’s smallest production brewery, east of downtown…
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Watch This White Woman Explain to a Black Woman Why Slavery Wasn’t So Bad
After using census reports and cherry-picked facts, a resident of Cobb County, Ga., recently surpassed the record held by Roseanne Barr and Rachel Dolezal on the Becky-ometer, a scientific tool used to measure the caucasity of white women. In a June 12 meeting of the Cobb County Commission, East Cobb County resident Mary Stevens used…
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Georgia Church Expelled From the Southern Baptist Convention After Being Accused of Discriminating Against Black Congregation
The behavior certainly wasn’t “Christ-like,” which is probably why one Georgia Baptist church was unceremoniously kicked out of the Southern Baptist Convention on Monday after being accused of intentionally discriminating against a black congregation that shared its church building. According to The Tennessean, the convention’s executive committee voted to withdraw fellowship from the Raleigh White…
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South Fulton, Ga.’s Entire Criminal-Justice System Is Run by Black Women
“Let black woman lead” is the mantra, and it looks as if one city in Georgia has taken it to heart. Only a year after its creation, South Fulton, the fifth-largest city in Georgia, has every aspect of its criminal-justice system run by African-American women, and unsurprisingly, its approach to criminal justice is among the…
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Dancing Dermatologist Has License Yanked by Georgia Medical Board
There is no saving face for dermatologist Windell Davis-Boutte. The dancing doctor, who hit medical infamy after videos surfaced of her rapping and dancing to “Cut It” by O.T. Genasis—and crooning “Gut don’t live here anymore” to Rose Royce’s “Love Don’t Live Here Anymore”—over unconscious patients, had her medical license suspended by Georgia’s Composite Medical…
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Georgia Teen With No Prior Record Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for Stealing a Pair of Sneakers When He Was 15
An 18-year-old Columbus, Ga., teen will spend the next five years in prison, plus 10 years on probation, after stealing a pair of Nike sneakers when he was 15. Dayonn Davis took the shoes from the unsuspecting owner who tried to sell them on Facebook. But despite the fact that he has no prior criminal…
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This Video of a Georgia Boy Helping an Elderly Woman Up the Stairs Is the Feel-Good News We All Deserve to See
It’s been a long, short week, and it’s high time we got some good news out of the chaos that is the regular news cycle. But never fear, this young Georgia boy’s random act of kindness, which was captured on video, is here to deliver. According to WSB-TV, viewer Riley Duncan captured the video of…
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Stacey Abrams’ Campaign Was the Hogwarts School for Black Girl Magic
There was an idea, hatched back in 2017, of bringing together a group of remarkable people to see if they could be something more; to see if they could work together when we needed them; to fight the battles we never could. … They were the Stacey Abrams campaign for governor of Georgia …. Forgive…