I took a walk on Saturday, from the King Center to Centennial Olympic Park and back, three miles in the heat of the day through a wounded city in a wounded country at the end of a week of death and fire. On Auburn Avenue I heard the call of a dove and saw yellow […]
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What is Antifa?
As protests over George Floyd’s death spread across the country, officials have blamed the violent nature of some demonstrations on members of a controversial group known as Antifa. President Donald Trump on Sunday said the United States would designate Antifa a terrorist organization, though the federal government has no legal authority to label a wholly […]
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College Football Hall of Fame damaged in Atlanta protests
The College Football Hall of Fame is boarded up and assessing damage from a destructive night of protests in downtown Atlanta. The facility’s most valuable trophies and artifacts were moved to a secure facility in case additional trouble breaks out amid nationwide unrest over the death in Minneapolis of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who pleaded […]
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Kemp authorizes 3,000 Guard troops for protests in Georgia
Atlanta’s mayor extended a curfew another night Sunday and Georgia’s governor authorized up to 3,000 National Guard troops to be deployed across the state to respond if needed to protests over the deaths of George Floyd in Minnesota and Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia. Guard soldiers had helped enforce a 9 p.m. curfew Saturday in Atlanta, […]
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National Guard troops sent to Atlanta; city invokes curfew
Atlanta’s mayor announced a curfew Saturday night and Georgia’s governor authorized up to 1,500 National Guard troops to deploy throughout the city after a Friday night protest over the death in Minnesota of George Floyd turned violent. Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms urged unity and nonviolence during a news conference Saturday evening. She said the […]
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Minneapolis police release 911 call that led to encounter with George Floyd
It started with a routine police call reporting someone using a counterfeit bill at a store in Minneapolis. What followed was a series of events that ended with George Floyd, 46, dead after a white police officer used his knee to pin him down in an incident captured on video. Floyd, who is black, died […]
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911 call the day Ahmaud Arbery died came from a cell phone belonging to the McMichaels
A cell phone belonging to one of the men charged with Ahmaud Arbery’s death called 911 on February 23, shortly before Arbery died, according to Glynn County Police call logs. Although the Glynn County Police Department redacted the names in both the audio and dispatch call log from the February 23 calls to 911, CNN […]
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Bakari Sellers: This is not the America I want to pass down to my children
On February 8, 1968, three South Carolina State University students were killed by State Highway Patrol Troopers during a campus protest. Twenty-seven others were wounded. My father, Cleveland Sellers, Jr., was shot in the arm that day, convicted for inciting a riot, and served seven months in prison. This dark day is known by many, […]
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CNN crew released from police custody after they were arrested live on air in Minneapolis
A CNN crew was arrested while giving a live television report Friday morning in Minneapolis — and then released about an hour later — as the crew covered ongoing protests over the death in police custody of George Floyd. State police detained CNN correspondent Omar Jimenez, his producer and his cameraman shortly after 5 a.m. […]
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Trump tweets threat that ‘looting’ will lead to ‘shooting.’ Twitter put a warning label on it
Twitter says President Donald Trump has violated its rule against glorifying violence and has affixed a warning label to one of his tweets — the first time such action has been taken against the president’s account. The social media platform is using what it calls a “public interest notice” to flag the president’s incendiary post […]
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Williams: The ‘I’m not a racist’ defense
Amy Cooper’s apology — which began “I am not a racist. I did not mean to harm that man in any way” — after her infamous confrontation in Central Park reminded me of an incident in 2008, when I was a mid-level staffer on the Senate Judiciary Committee. I was among a group of African […]
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Atlanta woman shares her story of contracting, then recovering from COVID-19
The last 52 days have altered Alethea Brown’s life forever. On April 6, Brown, a certified nursing assistant (CNA) and frontline worker, awakened to a frightening new reality. From a terrifying experience that included high fever, extreme fatigue, and uncontrolled coughing fits, Brown has to now adjust to continuing forward with recovery caused by contracting […]
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Obama on death of George Floyd: ‘This shouldn’t be ‘normal’ in 2020 America’
Former President Barack Obama on Friday said the death of a black man, George Floyd, in police custody, “shouldn’t be ‘normal’ in 2020 America.” “It can’t be ‘normal.’ If we want our children to grow up in a nation that lives up to its highest ideals, we can and must be better,” Obama said in […]
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The protest pictures alone tell the story of America’s racial hierarchy
To understand America’s racial hierarchy, you need only look at the pictures. On Monday in Minneapolis, a 46-year-old black man named George Floyd died not long after an arrest during which a white police officer, responding to an alleged forgery, kneeled on his neck for at least seven minutes. A video shows Floyd crying out […]
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What Donald Trump’s Minnesota tweet reveals about his moral compass
Just before 1 a.m. ET on Friday morning, the President of the United States got on Twitter and decided to offer his thoughts about the ongoing unrest in Minnesota following the release of video footage showing the death of an unarmed black man named George Floyd while he was being taken into custody by police. […]