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Atlanta loves to repeat its favorite line, a city too busy to hate. But these places know otherwise.  There are streets in Atlanta where memory lies low, beneath the asphalt, whispering like wind through brick. If you walk slowly enough, you’ll hear it: not history, but instruction. Not nostalgia, but reckoning.  Begin here. Georgia Avenue. […]

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At the ICNA Relief clinic in Decatur, patients ranging from women to children, young men to the elderly, all wait to be seen by the medical staff who are working diligently to provide free health care to residents in metro Atlanta who need it the most. In a modest office tucked away off Memorial Drive, […]

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Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe — who first made headlines in 2020 when he shot and killed Rayshard Brooks — is now being charged with simple battery after a violent altercation with an employee at X Midtown club last month. In a 911 call released a few days after the incident in June, club employee […]

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Back-to-school shopping means hitting the stores for notebooks, pencils, backpacks, binders, rulers, calculators, and more. And for cash-strapped shoppers, the prices can add up quickly, putting a dent in parents’ pockets. Adding to the financial pressures many face are concerns over rising inflation and President Donald Trump’s tariff plans. In an Intuit Credit Karma survey […]

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Business hasn’t been the same for MoreLyfe Juice Co. owner Trinket Lewis ever since construction crews began a series of road improvements outside her store in Cascade Heights nearly two years ago. The single mom and entrepreneur estimates her juice bar’s sales have decreased by as much as 72% since the Atlanta Department of Transportation […]

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After living in the U.S. for 25 years, Alex Maganda sits in an Immigration Customs and Enforcement detention facility in Texas.  But his former Morehouse College teammate, Temitayo Agoro, hasn’t forgotten him.  From his home in Florida, Agoro told Capital B Atlanta the two players, both from immigrant families, had a bond the moment they […]

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Ever since the 2022 global outbreak of mpox, the number of cases has died down in the United States, but Fulton County officials warn that mpox hasn’t fully left Atlanta.  At a Fulton County Board of Health meeting last week, the county’s director of epidemiology, Sasha Smith, stated that mpox is one of the diseases […]

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One of the largest mass voter registration cancellations in U.S. history may be disproportionately impacting Black Georgians who could be eligible to vote, according to a new analysis by Fair Fight, one of the state’s most prominent voting rights advocacy groups. On July 10, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office sent cancellation mailers to […]

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A mass shooting on Edgewood Avenue early Monday morning left Atlanta reeling and increased calls for more violence intervention work from grassroots organizations working in schools and neighborhoods across the city. At 1:27 a.m. Monday, Atlanta police received reports that multiple people were shot near the Edgewood at Hilliard streetcar station in Sweet Auburn, according […]

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An Atlanta father isn’t giving up after Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis did not appeal a federal judge’s ruling to dismiss the charges against the police officer who killed his son. Jimmy Hill said he is disappointed, but not surprised by the decision. On Jan. 22, 2019, Hill’s 21-year-old son, Jimmy Atchison, was shot […]

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Last week, Atlanta officials celebrated an agreement between the police department and the Atlanta Citizen Review Board to increase civilian oversight over the agency.  In a statement, Mayor Andre Dickens described the agreement as a step toward rebuilding trust between the government and the people it serves.  Tiffany Roberts, co-founder of Building Locally to Organize […]

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The youngest daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. has joined the chorus of critics calling on President Donald Trump to release the Jeffrey Epstein files in response to the federal government unveiling thousands of investigative documents relating to her father’s assassination. Bernice King expressed disapproval in a series of statements on Monday regarding the Trump […]

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