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The True Story Behind Why Atlanta Hasn’t Had a White Mayor Since 1974
Atlanta’s Blackity-Black mayors: The good, the bad, and especially the ugly…
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The True Story Behind Why Atlanta Hasn’t Had a White Mayor Since 1974
Atlanta’s Blackity-Black mayors: The good, the bad, and especially the ugly…
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Footage Shows Fatal Shooting Involving Ludacris’ Manager Chaka Zulu
The music exec has been charged with murder for the June shooting that occurred outside of his Atlanta restaurant.
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Andre Dickens Is the Next Mayor of Atlanta
Andre Dickens beat Felicia Moore in a runoff election to become the 61st mayor of Atlanta.
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Felicia Moore and Andre Dickens Face Off in Atlanta Mayoral Runoff
Current City Council President Felicia Moore and fellow city council member Andre Dickens are pushing for voters to show up for this final vote.
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No Third Term for Former Atlanta Mayor
Kasim Reed’s supporters circulated “Trumpian” fake news before conceding
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Lawyers Believe New Video Proves Caine Rogers Wasn't a Threat to Atlanta Officer During 2016 Shooting
On Tuesday, a new video was released detailing the 2016 shooting death of an unarmed Black man by an Atlanta Police officer. AJC reports that lawyers for Deravis Caine Rogers’ family released the video in an attempt to get the City of Atlanta to settle an ongoing wrongful death lawsuit. The dashcam video shows former…
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Atlanta’s Outgoing Mayor Kasim Reed Talks Elections, Black Power and Hurt Feelings
Last week, the city of Atlanta elected Keisha Lance Bottoms and continued its over-40-year streak of electing African-American mayors to lead the city. Bottoms’ defeat of Mary Norwood, a 65-year-old white woman who was suspected of being a Donald Trump-supporting Republican, elicited more hot takes than an NFL pregame show. Was this race about race?…
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Et Tu, Ceasar? Ceasar Mitchell’s Endorsement of White Mayoral Candidate Could End Black Power in Atlanta
The story of Julius Caesar is the ancient tale of former close political friendships gone bad. Julius Caesar, Pompey the Great and Marcus Licinius Crassus formed the triumvirate whose #SquadGoals were to expand the Roman empire and rule the world. Unfortunately, Caesar became more powerful than his partners and began running Rome like an empire,…
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MLK Would Never Shut Down a Freeway, and 6 Other Myths About the Civil Rights Movement and Black Lives Matter
On Saturday, as protests mounted across the country following the police killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed explained the large police presence at downtown protests to reporters: “Dr. King would never take a freeway.” Reed’s claim was historically absurd. Martin Luther King Jr. took many a highway—most famously, perhaps, in…