I checked back in with Annie Price* a week later to see what kind of progress she was making in her house hunt. Annie had found a real estate agent, a lender and was busily surfing several home sites for the kind of property she wanted. The agent she chose came though a personal recommendation […]
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R&B Group Day 26 brings 10-year anniversary tour to Atlanta’s Center Stage
More than 10 years ago, the world watched as P. Diddy brought together a group of five young men to form the R&B group Day 26 on the reality television show “Making the Band 4.” Each week, the show’s cast members competed for an opportunity to become a part of the new band, which would […]
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Dream trail entire game, fall below .500 following 78-71 loss to Mercury
The Atlanta Dream never led at any point during their 78-71 loss to the visiting Phoenix Mercury on Sunday afternoon. “I thought we rushed shots, that first quarter was almost too much,” said Dream head coach Nicki Collen after the game. “I thought our shots were much better during the second half.” “We can’t keep […]
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ABOUT THAT CAR: 2018 Lexus RX 350
The Lexus RX is the vehicle that catapulted the automaker into the front ranks of luxury brands. Yes, Lexus almost from its beginning had the reputation of manufacturing first-rate luxury cars. But it was the RX crossover that generated the volume that made it the best-selling luxury brand here for years. Escalating gas prices cooled […]
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Atlanta United’s Martinez scores hat trick against Philly Union, leagues MLS in goals scored
Tonight’s Atlanta United match with visiting Philadelphia Union was scoreless in the 21st minute before 25-year old Venezuelan forward and the league’s leading goal scorer Josef Martinez scored his 10th goal of the season on a penalty kick. Martinez was brought to the ground near goal by a Union defender Austin Trusty leading to his third […]
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Blavity-backed ’21Ninety’ summit heads to Atlanta for third installment
Back for a third year and in a brand new city, the Blavity-backed 21Ninety women’s lifestyle vertical hosts has set sights on bringing its “EmpowerHer” Conference, now called “Summit21,” to the Atlanta Convention Center at AmericasMart in downtown Atlanta. The two-day event, scheduled June 8-9, will provide women with the “opportunities to be hands-on with […]
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In the City of South Fulton’s justice system, black women hold all the reins
As America waits to see if Georgia will make history by electing the first African American woman governor in the country this November, African American women in one of Georgia’s newest cities are already making U.S. history. Only a year after the creation of the city of South Fulton, Georgia’s fifth largest city is […]
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God’s Word means a change is inevitable
You know, life at times can appear to be just one big roller coaster—a frightening one, at that! It’s full of twists and turns, people and events, ups and downs that would make anyone skeptical at best as to its purpose. Free will is supposed to have something to do with how we live our […]
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Black women are changing the tide of American politics
Last week, the world witnessed something that had never been done before in the history of politics in the United States. Not only did Democratic voters in Georgia elect a 44-year-old African American candidate as the first-ever Black gubernatorial nominee in the state, they also made history by electing the first Black woman to be […]
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Our nation’s top teachers disagree with Education Sec Devos on school choice
When the best educators in America traveled to Washington, D.C. for a series of events celebrating innovation in the classroom and to share best practices in K-12 education, they let officials at the Department of Education and the White House know exactly how they felt about the Trump Administration’s current push for school choice programs. […]
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US unemployment rate matches lowest point in half a century
How low can we go? The jobless rate ticked down to 3.8% in May, another sign of the strong economy and tight labor market. That tied the lowest unemployment rate since 1969. Since then, the only other time unemployment was this low was in April 2000. “It fell for all the right reasons. We had […]
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Offensive old blog posts mount, but Joy Reid and MSNBC remain silent
The embarrassing posts from MSNBC host Joy Reid’s old blog keep coming, with a new one unearthed seemingly by the day. But Reid, and her employer, remain steadfast in their silence. On Thursday, BuzzFeed reported on another inflammatory entry on the now-shuttered blog, known as “The Reid Report”: a post that included a photoshopped image of Sen. […]
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Blood test offers hope of finding cancers before symptoms develop
Promising new research enables scientists to use a blood test to screen for different types of cancers at early stages. The test, known as a liquid biopsy, is used to screen for DNA from cancer cells and was able to detect 10 different cancers with good accuracy. Dr. Eric Klein from the Taussig Cancer Institute […]
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Mayor Bottoms announces acquisition for park expansion
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced that the City of Atlanta has agreed to purchase 2.94 acres of land located at the corner of Piedmont Avenue and Monroe Drive for an expansion of Piedmont Park and the Atlanta Botanical Garden. The acquisition of the property was approved by the Atlanta City Council on May 21. “I […]
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Q&A with Rosemary Salem
Editor’s Note: Naked and Unashamed is here to encourage others to be vulnerable, shift their perspective and increase their faith through real stories of hope, faith, struggles and triumphs of extra-ordinary people in the community. It is my hope that someone’s life is impacted, changed, shifted, healed and brought closer to the Father through the […]