The White House is showing no signs of backing down from President Donald Trump’s refusal to condemn White supremacy during Tuesday night’s presidential debate, despite pleas from some Republican allies to clarify his comments. White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Thursday would not give a declarative statement denouncing White supremacy, instead pointing to the […]
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Braves shut out Reds again to sweep series
It had been so long since the Atlanta Braves won a postseason series, Marcell Ozuna wanted to make sure he captured the moment. Then Adam Duvall joined the selfie bandwagon. Ian Anderson dazzled in another shutout performance for Atlanta, and the Braves won a playoff series for the first time in almost two decades by […]
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ATLCounts, Urban League of Greater Atlanta host mobile barber, census drive
The City of Atlanta and the Urban League of Greater Atlanta (UGLA) has partnered with the This Is Dope Agency (TID) and is taking it to the streets with an innovative non-partisan campaign to increase participation in the 2020 Census. In addition to Census participation, TID and ULGA are also encouraging Atlanta residents to register […]
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#Election2020 | ‘I was sad. It was sad’: American voters bemoan nasty first presidential debate
Donald Trump and Joe Biden debated. Americans cringed. After the presidential candidates put on one of the noisiest, most chaotic debates in recent memory, voters across the country struggled for words – printable words – to describe the display. Many went first to profanities. Others landed on more polite, but still biting, terms for the […]
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#Election2020 | Brown: ‘First debate an embarrassment to this nation’
American politics nose-dived spiraled and crashed and burned during what masqueraded as the first 2020 presidential debate. “You’re a clown!” “Would you shut up, man!” “Everything you say is a lie.” Those were just some of the barbs from Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden who grew irritated by repeated interruptions by President Donald Trump at […]
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Kwanza Hall, Robert Franklin head to runoff for rest of John Lewis’ term
Former Atlanta City Councilman Kwanza Hall and former Morehouse College President Robert Franklin advanced to a runoff in Tuesday’s special election to fill the short remainder of the late John Lewis’ term in Congress. Hall and Franklin led five other candidates in Georgia’s 5th Congressional District, but no one won a majority. Voters will be […]
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Amore Transitional Group, Inc. re-launches in southwest Atlanta
Amore Transitional Group, Inc. announced their grand re-opening in a life skills training facility on Saturday, October 10, 2020. The 1975 square foot facility, located in Southwest Atlanta, GA facility located at 2740 Campbellton Road, Atlanta 30311, boasts a beautiful full-service and training salon with an office and private suite classrooms. This milestone is a […]
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#Election2020: Trump to far-right extremists: ‘Stand back and stand by’
President Donald Trump on Tuesday didn’t clearly condemn white supremacist groups and their role in violence in some American cities this summer, branding it solely a “left-wing” problem and telling one far-right extremist group to “stand back and stand by.” “Almost everything I see is from the left wing, not from the right wing,” said […]
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#Election2020: In chaotic first debate, taunts overpower Trump, Biden visions
The first debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden deteriorated into bitter taunts and near chaos Tuesday night as Trump repeatedly interrupted his opponent with angry — and personal — jabs that sometimes overshadowed the sharply different visions each man has for a nation facing historic crises. In the most tumultuous presidential debate […]
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#Election2020: Fox News airs pro-Trump propaganda after first debate
Minutes after the first presidential debate of the 2020 election season wrapped, Fox News turned the keys over to its chief propagandist, Sean Hannity. “The extremely weak, the frail, the confused, kind of angry Joe Biden just got steamrolled by President Trump,” Hannity declared. The Fox News host, who took over the network’s special coverage […]
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#Election2020: 6 takeaways from the off-the-rails first debate between Biden and Trump
President Donald Trump turned his first debate with Democratic rival Joe Biden into a chaotic disaster. Trump bullied, bulldozed and obfuscated his way through the 90-minute showdown, interrupting Biden and moderator Chris Wallace of Fox News at every turn. He ignored substantive questions and Biden’s policy arguments, and instead swung at a straw-man version of […]
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Rev. Gerald Durley: The religious argument against attacks on health care
During the midst of a pandemic and heightened racial tensions across the country, where we have lost over 200,000 of our brothers and sisters to one virus and countless others to the virus of racism, one might turn to God and ask themselves “Why?” “What did we do to deserve this?” “How can we keep […]
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Ambassador Andrew Young praises Biden ahead of VP Pence’s ATL visit
Wednesday morning, Ambassador Andrew Young released a statement praising former Vice President Joe Biden’s performance following Tuesday night’s first Presidential debate as Vice President Mike Pence arrived in Atlanta for the Faith and Freedom Conference at the Cobb Galleria Centre. “This is the most consequential election of our lifetime and never before have we seen […]
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A lesson from Trump taxes: An underfunded IRS is outmatched
Revelations of President Donald Trump’s near-zero federal income tax payments have underscored the ability of wealthy individuals with high-priced lawyers to outmatch an IRS that has long been understaffed and underfunded. A result is that the IRS has tended to pursue taxpayers of modest means more aggressively than they have high-powered business people, even though […]
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#Election2020: Biden, Trump snipe from road and rails after debate chaos
President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden kept up their debate-stage sniping from the road and the rails on Wednesday, fighting for working-class voters in the Midwest while both parties — and the debate commission, too — sought to deal with the most chaotic presidential faceoff in memory. The debate raised fresh questions about Trump’s […]