Top of the morning! Here is Your AM Rundown, with news updates in 400 words or less. Get caught up on headlines and other developments you might’ve missed. Here’s what to know for today: Residents may soon be able to carry firearms in public without a permit. The Georgia House approved HB 1358 and the […]
Sydney Sims
Sydney Sims is the youth and education reporter for Capital B Atlanta. Twitter @bySydneySims
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Georgia Senate Committee Votes to Exclude Colleges From “Critical Race Theory” Limitations
Here’s Your AM Rundown, with news updates in 400 words or less. Get caught up on headlines and other developments you might’ve missed. Here’s what to know for today: A Georgia Senate committee advanced a bill that excludes colleges and universities from the Republican effort to limit conversations about race in classrooms. Senate Bill 377 […]
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Georgia House Passes Legislation to Limit Conversations About Race in K-12 Classrooms
Here is Your AM Rundown, with news updates in 400 words or less. Get caught up on headlines and other developments you might’ve missed. Here’s what to know for today: The Georgia House of Representatives approved legislation that would limit what can be said about race in classroom discussions. House Bill 1084 passed 92-63 in […]
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Decatur Just Ended Its Mask Mandate
Top of the morning! Here is Your AM Rundown with news updates in 400 words or less. Get caught up on headlines and other developments you might’ve missed. Here’s what to know for today: ICYMI: Congratulations are in order to Maynard Jackson High School student Courtney Smith, who was recently crowned Miss Georgia Teen USA. […]
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Atlanta Mourns Black Media Icon
Top of the morning! Here is Your AM Rundown with news updates in 400 words or less. Get caught up on headlines and other developments you might’ve missed. Here’s what to know for today: The city of Atlanta has lost one of its most iconic voices in the media. Legendary radio DJ, Silas “SiMan Baby” […]
Posted inCourts, Criminal Justice
Is A Guilty Verdict Enough? Black Residents in Atlanta Aren’t So Sure.
Atlanta resident Gregory Sutton has spent the last 15 years going in and out of Georgia prisons, sleeping on hard mattresses and confined to a cell for 23 hours a day — and that’s exactly the experience he wants for the three white men who chased down and murdered Ahmaud Arbery. A jury found Travis […]
Posted inBlack Businesses, Money
‘What Happens to Us?’ Black Business Owners Question Future After Mall Purchase
Nzinga Williams has called the Gallery at South DeKalb home for over 20 years. Williams’ business, Light Up Your Life, was one of several that the Trinidad and Tobago native’s family owned in the mall. Today, only Light Up Your Life remains. The assortment of incense, sage, crystals and natural body care products, alongside playing […]
Posted inEducation, Higher Education
For Black College Students, AUC Was Their Safe Space. Now That’s Threatened, Too.
When Mikayla Sharrieff got her acceptance letter from Spelman College two years ago, she was extremely emotional. “I just remember feeling so proud to call myself a Spelmanite,” she said. “I even cried because I felt like all of my hard work paid off.” The junior engineering major chose Spelman because she wanted to experience […]
Posted inCOVID-19, Health
How This Decatur Nurse Brings Rapid Covid Tests to Black Communities
Paula Richardson was concerned. The ICU nurse at Emory Medical Center saw first-hand the disparities in access to COVID-19 testing, and worried that new variants would further impact Black and low-income residents. So, in February 2021, she took matters into her own hands. First, she started working out of the only space she had available: her […]
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All About Sydney Sims, Atlanta’s General Assignment Reporter
What I do at Capital B Atlanta I’m the general assignment reporter and will be working to develop and source stories that will serve the various Black communities in metro Atlanta. Why I came to Capital B Atlanta As a journalist, I have always been passionate about storytelling on a local level. Journalism is an […]