Some voting rights advocates fear a new web portal designed to allow former Georgians to easily cancel their Peach State voter registration could be used to fraudulently purge Black voters from the rolls. The new Voter Registration Cancellation web portal, which launched on Monday, requires users to input personal information such as their first and […]
Chauncey Alcorn
Chauncey Alcorn is Capital B Atlanta's state and local politics reporter.
Posted inPolitics & Policy
Can Kamala Harris Win Young Voters’ Support In Georgia?
Kamala Harris’ ascent to the top of the Democratic presidential ticket was felt almost immediately among young Black voters at the Atlanta University Center like Marchellos Scott. Scott, 21, is a Morehouse College senior and an organizer of AUC for Harris, an effort to bolster the Democratic ticket that formed last weekend on the same […]
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Georgia Dems Throw Support Behind Harris After Biden Drops Out
The possibility of Vice President Kamala Harris becoming the country’s first Black woman president lifted the spirits of many of Georgia’s Black elected officials in the hours after President Joe Biden bowed out of the 2024 White House race. Top Georgia Democrats, including many in the state’s legislative Black Caucus, had steadfastly backed Biden up […]
Posted inHousing
Fairburn & Gordon Tenants Confront Owners Face-To-Face After Hearing
A pair of Fairburn & Gordon I and II Apartments tenants finally got the chance to confront the owners of their notoriously dilapidated southwest Atlanta complex face-to-face Thursday morning. Brothers Behzad “Ben” Beroukhai and Abraham “Abe” Beroukhai — co-owners of Fairburn & Gordon’s parent company, A&B Apartments LLC — met privately with two of their […]
Posted inElections, News, Politics & Policy
Black Georgia Democrats React to Trump Assassination Attempt
Shock, sympathy, skepticism, and a bit of fear entered the minds of several Black Georgia lawmakers on Saturday in the aftermath of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. State Rep. Carl Gilliard, D-Savannah, said he was stunned Saturday when he heard news reports of shots ringing out at a Trump campaign rally in Butler, Pa. […]
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Why Black Faith Leaders Are Backing Biden Amid Calls For Him to Step Aside
Hours before President Joe Biden tried to calm fears about his candidacy with a live press conference, roughly 20 local Black clergy leaders gathered inside Georgia’s Gold Dome with a message for those with wavering political faith: stop calling for Biden to be replaced at the top of the Democratic ticket. “Joe Biden on his […]
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Homeless Census Reveals a Rise in Unhoused Black Workers in Atlanta
Lower-income Black workers whose stagnant wages aren’t keeping up with rent prices are driving the growth in Atlanta’s homeless population, according to an annual count of the city’s unhoused. The ranks of Atlanta’s homeless grew to 2,867 people, a 7% spike from the 2,679 homeless people counted in January 2023 in Partners for HOME’s annual […]
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Biden Debate Performance Receives Mixed Reaction From Black Georgians
Alarm bells sounded in Richard Case’s head Thursday night as he watched President Joe Biden struggle mightily to get through his debate with former President Donald Trump. “He came out lackluster with no energy, and that lack of energy lasted throughout the entire debate,” Case, a South Fulton resident, said of Biden following Capital B […]
Posted inPolitics & Policy, What Black Voters Are Saying
This Issue Is Critical to Black Georgia Ahead of the Presidential Debate
Atlanta resident Cathy Hooker has heard enough about Donald Trump’s legal woes and Joe Biden’s fraught relationship with Israel this election cycle. Instead, the 63-year-old grandmother — who earns $25,000 annually as a child care provider in Lithonia and shares a rented, single-family home with her son, daughter-in-law-and their two children — wants to hear […]
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Fairburn & Gordon Owners Pay City Fine. Tenants Call For Demolition.
The owners of the Fairburn & Gordon I and II Apartments complex in southwest Atlanta paid more than $35,000 on Friday to settle an overdue civil penalty, but their tenants say that’s not enough. Some residents want the entire complex condemned and demolished after the city relocates them to better housing. “I would like to […]
