After Hurricane Irma swept through the state of Georgia, over 200,000 residents of were left without power. The state is also dealing with multiple road closures because of the storm. Georgia Power one of the main power suppliers in the state reported that around 125,000 of their customers are in the dark. While another power […]
MIAMI (AP) — Aid rushed into hurricane-scarred Florida early Tuesday, residents began to dig out, and officials slowly pieced together the scope of Irma’s vicious path of destruction across the peninsula. Even as glimmers of hope emerged from parts of the state forecasters once worried would be razed by the storm, the fate of the […]
UPDATE: The officer who was caught on tape saying police only kill Black people will be fired. On Thursday, Cobb County police Chief Mike Register told news reps that he has begun process to eliminate Lieutenant Greg Abbott from the force As we previously reported, via dashcam video from July 2016 a white woman can be heard telling Abbott she was […]
A statue of Martin Luther King Jr. will be placed on the same property in Atlanta where two statues of Confederate officials stand, according to NPR. The new statue of the civil rights leader is expected to be unveiled today, the 53rd anniversary of his famous “I have a dream” speech. In the state capitol, […]
At Lithia Springs High School in Georgia, a teacher shot himself Thursday morning, according to authorities. Douglas County School officials say that around 7:15 a.m., the teacher shot himself in an empty classroom. There were no students or staff members present during the shooting. After shooting himself, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office stated that the […]
5-year-old Benjamin ‘Kamau’ Hosch III drowned at Cochran Mill Nature Center in a waterfall on July 24, 2017 near Atlanta, Georgia. Kamau was attending Camp Cricket with 13 other children as part of a summer camp. On that day the children took a trip to the center to have lunch, hike and play in the water […]
A Black waitress in the Buckhead-area of Atlanta, Georgia said she was handed a menu with a swastika scrawled on it on Thursday.
Stacey Abrams, currently a representative in the Georgia Statehouse and House Minority Leader, has accomplished some great career achievements already. Her latest aim is to become the next governor which would make her the first Black woman to achieve the feat if elected next year. Abrams, 43, was born in Madison, Wisconsin but primarily raised […]
ATLANTA (AP) — The ex-wife of a 36-year-old Georgia man convicted of murder for leaving their toddler son to suffer an agonizing death inside a hot SUV said she still believes “it was an accident.” Justin Ross Harris was sentenced to life in prison after a jury found him guilty in November. His son, 22-month-old […]
In the class, students explore how Black social movements have contributed to empowerment within the African-American community.
A fired Georgia police officer sues her former department over dismissing her for displaying a Confederate flag outside her home. She argues that the First Amendment gives her a right to fly the flag.
Voters overwhelmingly turned down a constitutional amendment for the special statewide school district. At issue were education funds and control.
