Two Minnesota-based Black women activists who claim to have started the ongoing National Target Boycott more than a year ago are accusing megachurch pastor Jamal Bryant, former Ohio State Sen. Nina Turner, and Until Freedom activist Tamika Mallory of deliberately co-opting their economic protest and creating confusion over whether it has ended. To be clear, […]
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Target Protest Leader Jamal Bryant Denies Being Paid to End Boycott
Target protest leader Jamal Bryant on Thursday strongly refuted online accusations that the retail giant paid him to end the national economic protest he helped spearhead more than a year ago. “Absolutely not a dime for even our meetings,” Bryant told Capital B Atlanta during a Thursday phone interview. “I bought my own plane ticket, […]
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Jamal Bryant Says Target Boycott Is Ending Without DEI Concessions
Jamal Bryant announced Wednesday that the Target boycott is over. One year ago last week, the Atlanta megachurch pastor called on his congregation to take their dollars elsewhere after the retail giant announced it was rolling back diversity, equity, and inclusion commitments launched in 2020 in the wake of George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis, home […]
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Warnock-Backed Bill Targets Corporate Home Buyers Pricing Out Black Families
Private companies buying up homes in metro Atlanta have made the American dream of homeownership unattainable for many families, and U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock said Black Georgians seeking to buy their first homes have been hurt more than most. Investors own at least 25% of all the single family rental properties in Atlanta, the largest […]
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After NBA Shuts Down ‘Magic City Monday’ the Club Says ‘Atlanta Can’t Be Cancelled’
Bowing to public pressure, the NBA announced that ‘Magic City Monday’ was cancelled. The NBA team announced that March 16 would be “Magic City Monday” at State Farm Arena as the team faces off against the Orlando Magic. And while none of the strip clubs famed dancers would be performing, the evening was designed to […]
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Bills Aimed at Lowering Housing Costs for Black Georgians Face Crucial Deadline
Albany State University sophomore Leah Cowen dreams of owning a home in Georgia one day, but worries she’ll never be able to afford it. “It’s so important to me, because I do have parents who pay mortgages,” Cowen, 20, told Capital B Atlanta. “Seeing how it’s affecting them personally, and knowing that I’m gonna have […]
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Eviction Crisis in Metro Atlanta Disproportionately Impacts Black Residents
Anxious. Annoyed. Angry. Those are just a few of the emotions expressed by the steady stream of Black folks seen walking in and out of the magistrate case information office inside the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta on Tuesday as some desperately sought legal aid before appearing in court for pending eviction cases. Metro Atlanta […]
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Gubernatorial Candidates Make Their Case to Black Business Owners
Local small-business owner Abigail Baker has seen profits soar for her artificial intelligence integration company, Centient Imagine LLC, over the past three years as more companies embrace the technology and hire her to train their employees to do the same. She wants the next governor of Georgia to help other Black entrepreneurs grow their businesses […]
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Atlanta Spent $60 Million to Address Homelessness, but the Crisis Persists
As the temperature dropped to around 35 degrees last Wednesday night, Yered Israel wasn’t sure where he’d be sleeping — or whether he’d sleep at all. The 36-year-old, self-identified unhoused man was sitting in the entryway of a Georgia State University garage with his belongings around 9 p.m. last week when he was approached by […]
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Advocates Say ‘Landlord Friendly’ Laws Are Fueling Evictions, Homelessness in Atlanta
Monae Edgerson Pettaway was already in a state of “financial crisis” before she was forced to move out of her one-bedroom apartment at McAuley Station in Atlanta in December. The 55-year-old disabled Atlanta native says the management team at the 170-unit apartment complex — located near Selena S. Butler Park in the city’s Sweet Auburn […]
