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Music Was Form of Resistance for Women During Civil Rights Movement

By Katie Elyse Bohn, Penn State University When Nina Simone belted out “Mississippi Goddam” in 1964, she gave voice to many who were fighting for...

VIEWPOINTS: Why Isn’t Stacey Abrams Running? Because African Americans Lose to Incumbent Governors and Senators

Congressman William Jefferson, center, lost to incumbent Louisiana Governor Mike Foster in 1999. AP Photo/Bill Haber John A. Tures, LaGrange College Former Georgia General Assembly Minority Leader...

There Aren’t Enough Doctors to Treat HIV in the South

By Max Blau, Stateline When his HIV specialist left Selma, Larry wondered where he would get care next. He already drove an hour from his...

John T. Peek, Atlanta’s African American Philharmonic Orchestra Co-Founder and Conductor, Dies at 91

“I’m looking for someone to keep the orchestra and the music going five years from now,” declared John T. Peek in 2007, on the...

Former Ebola Patient Who Was Brought to Emory Hospital Calls Attention to Current Outbreak

By Ron Harris, Associated Press As the second deadliest Ebola outbreak in history rages in Congo, a doctor who survived the deadly disease five years...

VIEWPOINTS: A Confederate Statue Graveyard Could Help Bury the Old South

PHOTO: A damaged Confederate statue lies on a pallet in a warehouse in Durham, N.C. on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017, after protesters yanked it...

“David Makes Man” Adds New Color and Complexity

By Kiki Camille, Chicago Defender Oprah and Michael B Jordan’s Outlier Society have partnered to executive produce a new OWN Network drama ‘David Makes Man,”...

The Supreme Court Decision That Kept Suburban Schools Segregated

By Jon Hale, University of South Carolina America recently marked the 65-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education –...

Judge Orders Improvements at South Fulton Jail

A U.S. judge ordered officials in a metro Atlanta county Tuesday to improve conditions at a local jail where women with mental health problems...

Judge Weighs Whether to Force Georgia to Use Paper Ballots

By Kate Brumback, Associated Press Georgia allowed its election system to grow “way too old and archaic” and now has a deep hole to dig...

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