The accidental discharge of a passenger’s weapon in a security area of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport caused widespread panic Saturday afternoon, prompting a brief halt of departing flights over the busy travel weekend. The incident occurred around 1:30 p.m. ET when a “prohibited item” was detected in a passenger’s property while going through the X-ray […]
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Williams with 2 TDs, Georgia St. defeats Arkansas St. 28-20
Jamyest Williams rushed for a career-high 125 yards with two touchdowns, Georgia State’s defense made 15 tackles for losses, and the Panthers defeated Arkansas State 28-20 on Saturday to become bowl-eligible for the third straight season. Georgia State (6-5, 5-3 Sun Belt) held the Red Wolves (2-9, 1-6) to 273 total yards, including a school-record […]
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Coan, No. 6 Irish dominate Yellow Jackets in 55-0 victory
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — On a day when No. 6 Notre Dame did little wrong in a 55-0 shutout of beleaguered Georgia Tech on Saturday, coach Brian Kelly made a pitch for his team’s postseason aspirations in the College Football Playoff. “It’s an improving team that continues to do the little things the right […]
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Nouveau Bar & Grill partners with Marlo Hampton, Naturi Naughton for second annual turkey giveaway
Nouveau Bar & Grill is teaming up with Marlo Hampton (Real Housewives of Atlanta) and Naturi Naughton (STARZ’s Power and ABC’s Queens) to hand out 600 turkeys to needy families at their Jonesboro location: 103 West Mill Street, Jonesboro from 2pm – 6pm EST. This will be the restaurant’s second consecutive year hosting the event (the first was co-hosted with recording artist, CeeLo Green). […]
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BOOK REVIEW: Systematic Land Theft by Jillian Hishaw, Esq
Worldwide, we lose 150 acres per minute. That equals 3.36 million hectares (8.3 million acres) a year — an area larger than New Jersey. In the United States, 175 acres are lost per hour to development. One acre is equal to 1.32 acres, a little more than the size of a football field. 30,000 acres […]
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#ElectionCentral: Runoff to Decide Last Two BOE Seats
Andre Dickens and Felicia Moore are not going to be the only candidates up for office this month. Two seats on Atlanta’s board of education are also going to be decided by voters during the November 30 runoff election. The city wide ballot will have voters choose who will fill the board’s District 7-At-Large […]
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Jury finds Rittenhouse not guilty in Kenosha shootings
Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges Friday after pleading self-defense in the deadly Kenosha shootings that became a flashpoint in the debate over guns, vigilantism and racial injustice in the U.S. Rittenhouse, 18, began to choke up, fell forward toward the defense table and then hugged one of his attorneys as he heard a […]
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Attorney likens Arbery rally to ‘lynching’ of defendants
The defense attorney who caused an outcry by saying Black pastors should be barred from the murder trial over Ahmaud Arbery’s death declared in court Friday that a courthouse rally supporting the slain Black man’s family was comparable to a “public lynching” of the three white defendants. “This case has been infected by things that […]
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Malcolm X’s legacy continues to haunt America’s criminal justice system
The exonerations, after 56 years, of two Black men convicted of the assassination of Malcolm X rights a grave miscarriage of justice and opens new questions about race and America’s criminal justice system. Spurred by decades of effort by historians and further accelerated by the widely acclaimed 2019 Netflix documentary series, “Who Killed Malcolm X,” […]
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Memphis police release photos of suspects in rapper Young Dolph’s fatal shooting
Memphis police have released surveillance photos of two suspects they believe killed rapper Young Dolph as he was reportedly buying cookies at a popular local store on Wednesday. The police department said it obtained video surveillance showing the suspects getting out of a white two-door Mercedes-Benz armed with firearms and approaching the rapper as he […]
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Analysis: 4 cases converge to test American justice
There is another moment of truth for American justice. A White man who took a gun to patrol a Black Lives Matter protest and ended up killing two people was acquitted Friday. Another trial features White men accused of taking justice into their own hands to kill a Black man. A civil trial seeks to […]
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Hawks, UPS and Goodr supplied “Thanksgiving Day Essentials” to deserving families in Clayton County
During the week before Thanksgiving, the Atlanta Hawks and UPS, the official delivery and logistics partner of the Hawks, teamed up with Goodr, Atlanta-based social impact startup leveraging technology to reduce food waste and end hunger, to provide ‘Thanksgiving Day essentials’ to more than 350 families in Clayton County. The event, which took place in […]
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Urban farms are a Key Part of the City of Atlanta Fight against Food-Redlining
In Atlanta, as in many other parts of the nation, access to fresh, healthy food is a problem that disproportionately affects the Black population. In the heart of Atlanta, 61-year-old Wayne Ricketts spends his days rooting up weeds, harvesting the year’s final crops and planting seeds before the winter sets in. Ricketts tends […]
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Call to remove Black pastors adds to agony in Arbery’s town
BRUNSWICK. Ga. (AP) — Race was always going to be at the forefront of the trial of three white men charged with chasing and killing Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, in a coastal Georgia neighborhood. But a defense attorney’s quickly rejected call to kick out Black pastors, including Jesse Jackson, from the Glynn County […]
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Biden welcomes Trudeau and López Obrador to the White House in revival of US-Mexico-Canada summit
President Joe Biden, reconvening a summit of North American leaders at the White House on Thursday, sought cross-border agreement on migration, Covid-19 and economic integration, even as his guests voiced concerns over what they say are protectionist trade policies left over from Biden’s predecessor. “We can meet all of the challenges if we just take […]