Dreams do come true. Former Atlanta attorney Karen Fultz-Robinson is living proof that your passion can become a reality. Robinson has always been into fashion, clothing design and how it makes you feel as a woman. And according to her, as a lawyer, the clothing people wear is pivotal in how serious others take […]
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Morris Brown College to Start Restoration of Historic Fountain Hall
Morris Brown College announced it received an award from the National Park Service (NPS) Historically Black Colleges and Universities Grant Program to start the restoration of the historic Fountain Hall. The restoration also includes two stained glass windows honoring Atlanta University’s Founder Reverend E. A. Ware and his wife Jane Twichwell Ware. Built in 1882, […]
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Items from Mayor Bottoms’ Agenda introduced to City Council
During the Atlanta City Council’s two-day meeting, several topics on Mayor Bottoms’ agenda were discussed. Legislation to establish the Mayor’s Office of Violence Reduction was introduced. The creation of the office was a recommendation made by the Anti-Violence Advisory Council. The purpose is to put a focus on crime-prevention efforts in the Mayor’s office […]
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Biden to GOP critics looking to challenge new vaccine requirements in court: ‘Have at it’
President Joe Biden challenged Republicans to test his new vaccine requirements in court Friday as he stressed his administration’s commitment to keeping students safe as he visited a Washington, DC, middle school on Friday. In a visit highlighting one part of his six-pronged plan to combat the pandemic, Biden addressed criticism from Republicans, including several […]
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Senators Ossoff and Reverend Warnock introduce transportation bill urging additional funding
Friday morning, Senator Jon Ossoff introduced the Public Transportation Expansion Act alongside U.S. Senators Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), which would for the first time fund construction of public transportation specifically connecting affordable housing with transit networks in order to serve riders and commuters in low-income communities. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Chris […]
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This is what a US endgame for Covid-19 should look like, Fauci says
With more than 75 million eligible Americans still not vaccinated, hospitals in many states overwhelmed and fears that cases could grow further in the fall, experts and officials are scrambling to slow the Covid-19 pandemic. “The one thing that we do know for sure… 160,000 cases a day is not where we want to be,” […]
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Feds cite sedition in search warrant for lawyer’s phone
Federal prosecutors cited seditious conspiracy as a crime under investigation in a recent search that appears to be related to the US Capitol riot probe, according to a court document supporting the search. The move, made known through the iPhone search of the Oath Keepers-linked Texas lawyer Kellye SoRelle, again raises the possibility that the […]
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Now president, Biden to mark 9/11 rite amid new terror fear
NEW YORK (AP) — He will again make the ritual journey to sacred American landmarks of loss. He will once more bow his head in silent prayer. He will repeat words of comfort for those whose lives changed forever on that brilliant September day two decades ago. But this time, Joe Biden will hold the […]
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CAU Student becomes the First African-American Miss Georgia Collegiate
Winning and ‘breaking barriers’ is nothing new for Clark Atlanta University (CAU) student Kennedy Whisenant, as she became the first Black woman to win the Miss Georgia Collegiate American Pageant. Whisenant, a Birmingham, Alabama native, is a junior Fashion major at CAU. She plans to continue to work in the pageant industry after graduation, with […]
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Atlanta Food and Wine Festival returns to Atlanta This Weekend
After going virtual for its 10th Anniversary last year, the Atlanta Food and Wine Festival is making its debut at the Historic Fourth Ward Park this weekend. The festival includes wine pop-ups, all-inclusive tasting tents, live intimate brunches and lunches from culinary talents and chefs across the Atlanta area such as Chef Whitney Thomas […]
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2013 Voting Rights Act ruling could make it easier for states to get away with extreme racial gerrymandering
The 2013 Supreme Court ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act still finds new ways to scramble the Justice Department’s enforcement of the landmark 1965 law. As legislation that restores a key element of the law makes its way toward a likely Senate GOP filibuster, the Justice Department is heading into the first redistricting cycle […]
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VOICES: Policing in Schools: How Black, Brown, Indigenous and Students with Disabilities are Criminalized at Higher Rates
This story was produced as part of a collaboration with the Center for Public Integrity and USA TODAY. Since the summer of 2020, there has been a lasting national focus on the relationship between the police and Black people in this country. One of the bigger conversations has surrounded the role of police officers in society and how that could be […]
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On the Rise Financial Center has a permanent location in Vine City
On the Rise Financial Center may not be a new company in Atlanta but their new digs are. On the Rise is located in historic Vine City and opened July 1. The center opened in 2017 with support from Equifax and The Arthur M. Blank Foundation among others and has been dedicated to helping […]
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Proposal issued for Affordable Housing on City-Owned Site
Mayor Bottoms has announced that Invest Atlanta has partnered with the Department of City Planning to issue a request for proposal for the redevelopment of 104 Trinity Avenue SW. The 1.3 acre city-owned parcel of land is currently vacant and is located across from City Hall. The proposal inquires for a developer to use […]
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Sweeping new vaccine mandates for 100 million Americans
In his most forceful pandemic actions and words, President Joe Biden on Thursday ordered sweeping new federal vaccine requirements for as many as 100 million Americans — private-sector employees as well as health care workers and federal contractors — in an all-out effort to curb the surging COVID-19 delta variant. Speaking at the White House, […]