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$5 Million Partnership To Support Mixed-Income Housing and Economic Development
Councilwoman Shepard and the Urban League to Host Film and Business Symposium
On the Agenda: Atlanta City Council Significant Legislative Items for Monday, March 18
Georgia Exported $40.5 Billion Worth of Goods Last Year
Dramatic Video Revealed for The Stitch Project in Downtown
Atlanta Public Schools Accepting Applications for Student Transfers Through March 29
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NABJ President Sarah Glover said she’s stunned that CNN canceled a planned meeting to discuss the importance of diversity and Black representation within the ranks of the network’s executive news managers and those who report directly to the cable channel’s president Jeff Zucker. “It’s a moral issue,” Glover told NNPA Newswire in an interview on […]
An Atlanta businessman allegedly paid more than $40,000 in bribes to Atlanta attorney Adam Smith for three years while Smith was the chief procurement officer at City Hall, according to a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday. When federal agents engaged in an ongoing corruption investigation zeroed in on Smith in February 2017, Lohrasb “Jeff” Jafari urged […]
Atlanta City Council member Joyce Sheperd and the Urban League of Greater Atlanta have teamed up to host the 2019…
The SunTrust Foundation announced today it awarded a $5 million grant to the Westside Future Fund (WFF). The grant will positively impact Atlanta’s historic Westside neighborhoods, whose footprint once housed more than 40,000 residents by supporting mixed-income housing and economic development. This will ensure that legacy residents can continue to call the historic Westside home and thrive as part […]
Attendees at the Central Atlanta Progress/Atlanta Downtown Improvement District annual meeting got the first look at a dramatic video rendering of The Stitch, a proposed $452 million project that would cap the Downtown Connector. First proposed in 2016, The Stitch envisions capping the Downtown Connector by constructing a ¾-mile platform over the interstate, extending from the […]
Atlanta City Council member Joyce Sheperd and the Urban League of Greater Atlanta have teamed up to host the 2019 Atlanta Film & Television Career and Small Business Symposium Saturday, March 30 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Sylvan Hills Middle School (1461 Sylvan Road, S.W.). This informative symposium will attract hundreds of attendees […]
When most people think of International trade, they think about trade deals between the United States and other countries, but Georgia has its own trade portfolio as well and the state ranks number 11 in the nation for international exports. According to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, Georgia’s 2018 international trade numbers set a new record […]
Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro isn’t ruling out direct payments to African-Americans for the legacy of slavery – a stand separating him from his 2020 rivals. “If under the Constitution we compensate people because we take their property, why wouldn’t you compensate people who actually were property,” the former Obama-era housing secretary and ex-San Antonio mayor said […]
Dr. Lonnie King Jr., a leader of the Atlanta Student Movement in the 1960s, died Tuesday morning. King, who studied at Morehouse College, was one of the students who went against the university leader’s attempts to keep students from protesting. He, along with civil rights leaders such as Julian Bond, planned to following in the footsteps of […]
On Tuesday, March 19, 2019, residents in Atlanta’s City Council District 3 will vote for their new representative in a…
As Georgia gears up to be a potential battleground state in the 2020 election, many presidential hopefuls will visit the state to lay the groundwork for their campaign. We can expect to hear a lot about bread-and-butter issues such as job growth, infrastructure, and health care. But one theme connecting all those issues tends to […]
Black History Month has become the time to reflect on all the progress black Americans have made, but the sobering reality is that when it comes to wealth – the paramount indicator of economic security – there has been virtually no progress in the last 50 years. Based on data from the Federal Reserve’s Survey […]
Bill Jenkins, a government epidemiologist who tried to expose the unethical Tuskegee syphilis study in the 1960s and devoted the rest of his career to fighting racism in health care, died on Feb. 17 in Charleston, S.C. He was 73. His wife, Dr. Diane Rowley, said the cause was complications of sarcoidosis, an inflammatory disease. […]
The Senate Health and Human Services Committee passed legislation Tuesday to allow Gov. Brian Kemp to pursue health care waivers from the federal government. The panel’s 9-4 vote came after Senate Minority Leader Steve Henson (D-Stone Mountain) sought to open up the bill’s Medicaid waiver request to cover more Georgians. Henson’s bid to amend Senate […]
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