The office of Cobb County District Attorney Flynn Broady sent the following announcement about a prayer vigil in Marietta Square tomorrow to commemorate Ahmaud Arbery Day, recently declared by the…
By Arielle Robinson Wednesday morning in Marietta Square the Cobb County SCLC, Cobb NAACP, local religious leaders and various community groups held a press conference where they denounced GOP efforts…
By Anthony Siracusa, University of Colorado Boulder [This article first appeared in The Conversation, used with permission] With Congress failing to pass new voting rights legislation, it’s worth remembering that…
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By Kwasi Konadu, Colgate University and Clifford C. Campbell, Dartmouth College [first appeared in The Conversation, used with permission] The 13th Amendment is having a moment of reckoning. Considered one…
By Abubakarr Jalloh, Hollins University [this article first appeared in The Conversation; republished with permission] From the earliest days of the pandemic, COVID-19 has wrought a far higher toll in…
Wellstar Health System issued the following press release about its MLK Day celebration, and to announce that Wellstar has added MLK Day to its paid holiday schedule. Marietta, Ga.(January 17,…
By Sharon Austin, University of Florida [This article first appeared in The Conversation, used with permission] On Apr. 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee,…
By Vicki Crawford, Morehouse College [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] For the past 11 years, civil rights historian Vicki Crawford has worked as the director…
By Atinuke Adediran, Fordham University [This article first appeared in The Conversation. Used with permission] About 87% of nonprofit CEOs in the U.S. were white in 2019, down from 90%…
By Rebecca Gaunt Two Joseph Wheeler High School students joined a virtual panel Thursday, hosted jointly by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs,…