Morehouse College has selected one of its own to grab the baton as the school’s next president. Public health leader and biostatistician F. DuBois Bowman — who graduated from the institution in 1992 with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics — will join the school as its 13th president at a time of great upheaval in […]
Atlanta
Posted inHousing
Revamped Motel Gives Atlanta’s Unhoused a Second Chance — But for How Long?
Malcolm Walker was grateful to have a roof over his head on Monday after spending the past six months living under a bridge. The 32-year-old Atlanta resident was one of up to 80 unhoused people living in tents at the Pryor Street homeless encampment — located downtown under Interstate 20 — before a crew of […]
Posted inCourts, Criminal Justice
After Executing an Intellectually Disabled Man, Georgia Rewrote Its Death Penalty Law
Gov. Brian Kemp signed a bill Tuesday that will transform how intellectual disability is handled in death penalty cases in Georgia. Now in alignment with 26 other states that still practice capital punishment, Georgia will require a judge to determine during a pretrial hearing whether a defendant is intellectually disabled or not. Prior to the […]
Posted inCulture
Goodwill Drops a Cowboy Carter-Inspired Collection Ahead of Beyonce’s ATL Show
Beyoncé is slated to bring her “Cowboy Carter” tour to Atlanta in two months, and local Goodwill locations are helping thrift-loving fans and concertgoers look the part. Goodwill of North Georgia, a division of the international thrift store chain, launched a limited-time capsule collection last Friday dubbed “Cowboy Goodwill” to align with the artistic and conceptual […]
Posted inEnvironmental Justice
How Illegal Tire Dumps Are Harming Atlanta’s Black Neighborhoods
Chad Livsey has spent the past seven years removing improperly discarded furniture and other hard-to-recycle litter from Atlanta neighborhoods, but he says he has yet to encounter a dumping site as daunting as this one in southeast Atlanta. The Snellville native commemorated Earth Day by responding to a tip he received one year ago about […]
Posted inCriminal Justice, Policing
Viral Sermon Blaming Black Parents for Police Killings Sparks Mother’s Day Protest
While many Atlanta families were getting ready for church or preparing Mother’s Day brunch on Sunday, Jimmy Hill stood alone in protest outside one of Atlanta’s fastest-growing houses of worship, 2819 Church. Located in southwest Atlanta — and boasting 800,000 followers on YouTube and nearly half a million on Instagram — the church went viral […]
Posted inIncarceration, Policing, Politics & Policy, Public Safety
Overcrowded and Understaffed: Fulton County Jail Gets Money to Hire More Deputies
Fulton County commissioners voted on Wednesday to allocate additional funding to staff Sheriff Patrick Labat’s office, following a scathing November U.S. Department of Justice report that cited understaffing as a cause of rampant, unchecked violence at Fulton County Jail. Vice Chair Bob Ellis introduced the resolution, which will support the hiring and retention of new […]
Posted inCriminal Justice, Policing
Judge to Decide Whether to Move Forward With Trial in Fatal Police Shooting of Jimmy Atchison
Jimmy Hill became visibly emotional on Monday as he watched retired Atlanta police officer Sung Kim testify for the first time in federal court about fatally shooting Hill’s son, Jimmy Atchison. Hill told Capital B Atlanta after the evidentiary hearing that he got caught up in the moment during Kim’s remarks, which he characterized as […]
Posted inPolitics & Policy, State Politics
Why Jason Esteves Puts Georgia’s Housing Crisis at the Center of the Governor’s Race
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jason Esteves recently voiced support for the growing Target boycott, as he and other state Democratic Party leaders continue working to mend fences with Black Georgia voters. “My wife has had a [Target Circle 360] subscription, and she canceled it as a result,” Esteves said during an April phone interview with Capital […]
Posted inCourts, Criminal Justice
A Georgia Father Claims He Didn’t Kill His Infant Son. Will the State Supreme Court Believe Him?
Ester Clark has been living a nightmare for the past 22 years, ever since her grandson Danyel Smith was sentenced to life behind bars for the death of his infant son — a tragedy they both say he did not cause. “They never tried to find out what really happened,” Clark, 81, told Capital B Atlanta […]
