Peoplestown community activist Bertha Darden — a former homeowner whose years-long eminent domain battle against the city of Atlanta gained international media attention — has died. Her passing on Monday came about a year after she reluctantly sold her house to the city, a three-bedroom bungalow where she had lived with her family for more […]
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Atlanta Has a New NAACP President. These Are His Top Priorities.
Securing justice for police brutality victims is among the top priorities for Atlanta’s next NAACP chapter president, attorney Gerald Griggs, who announced his ascension to the role on Twitter on Wednesday morning. Griggs, 45, took over a day after the chapter’s former leader, Richard Rose, announced he was stepping down. As the chapter’s first vice […]
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How Atlanta Is Honoring the Life of Christine King Farris
This story comes from our partners at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Christine King Farris was practically born in Ebenezer Baptist Church, the grand old Atlanta church that was at times pastored by her grandfather, father, and two brothers. She was married there and saw her mother, a longtime church organist, die there. So in the days […]
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Trains Keep Blocking a Main Road in Hunter Hills. Residents Want to Know Why.
Hunter Hills resident Deborah Wright says she’s typically the one who calls CSX Corp. to complain when one of the company’s trains gets parked at the railroad crossing up the street from the home where she’s lived for the past four decades. In all that time, the retired flight attendant — now in her early […]
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Atlanta Could Soon Join the Reparations Movement
Atlanta, in the very near future, will join the growing ranks of state and local governments forming their own reparations study task forces, if Sheila Flemming and her allies get their way. Flemming is a historian and veteran reparations researcher who serves as social action chair of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc.’s Atlanta alumnae chapter. […]
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Will Government Pressure on ‘Cop City’ Protesters Affect Future Movements?
Keeping with their promise to use all avenues available to them, the Cop City Vote Coalition — part of the larger Stop Cop City Movement — has successfully filed a petition to hold a referendum on the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, aka “Cop City.” Filed June 14, the petition was approved by the municipal […]
