Southeast / Georgia - 1 year ago
There are over 35,000 documented black millionaires living in the U.S–more than there has ever been at any other time in the history of our country. Many of these millionaires are self-made: men and women who overcame many adversities and broke thr...
Southeast / Georgia - 1 year ago
Former President Barack Obama was right to speak out Thu., Dec. 7 at the Economic Club of Chicago to warn Americans about the fragility of our democracy. Signs abound that our freedoms are under siege, not only from foreign enemies such as Vladimir...
Southeast / Georgia - 1 year ago
Donald Trump has made it pretty clear how he feels about black people. He has refused to condemn white nationalists and routinely calls out black pro football players for protesting police brutality. So why would the hater-in-chief accept an invita...
Southeast / Georgia - 1 year ago
With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Keisha Lance Bottoms leads Mary Norwood in the race to become the next mayor of Atlanta by 759 votes. Bottoms has declared victory, but Norwood is not conceding the race. Norwood told her supporters that she...
Southeast / Georgia - 1 year ago
Atlanta voters, by a margin of 759 votes, chose Keisha Lance Bottoms, a lawyer, and former judge, as the 60th mayor of the city. She succeeds Kasim Reed, a flashpoint in the waning days of the runoff. Keisha joins Latoya Cantrell — who was just el...
Southeast / Georgia - 1 year ago
Two black congressmen say they will not attend the opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum on Sat., Dec. 9 because President Donald Trump is set to attend. In a joint statement released Thu. Dec. 7, Democratic Reps. John Lewis and Bennie G....
Southeast / Georgia - 1 year ago
A former Atlanta police officer has been found guilty of assault and falsifying a police report in federal court for beating a man whom he accused of stealing a tomato. Turns out the man had a receipt in his pocket for the fruit/vegetable, but that...
Southeast / Georgia - 1 year ago
Thanksgiving just passed, Christmas and New Year’s Eve is around the corner and folks are a bit anxious; actually y’all are trippin’! (Yes I said y’all and I will probably be using incorrect grammar throughout this post because I need you to pay cl...
Southeast / Georgia - 1 year ago
(Clark Atlanta Atheletics) The Clark Atlanta Panthers women’s basketball program under first-year head coach and former all-SEC and WNBA player Yolanda Moore couldn’t have started the 2017-2018 season worse than their 20-point loss to Johnson C....
Southeast / Georgia - 1 year ago
Serena Williams has entered to play in the first grand slam of the season at January’s Australian Open, according to the tournament’s organizers. Defending champion Williams, 36, gave birth to her daughter Alexa in September and married Reddit co-f...
Southeast / Georgia - 1 year ago
Monday, the National Football League, Morehouse College and the Ross Initiative in Sports for Equality (RISE) announced the HBCU will host the Advocacy in Sport Workshop in Atlanta, Georgia, February 21-23, 2018 to educate athletes on how to develo...
Southeast / Georgia - 1 year ago
Time magazine has named “The Silence Breakers,” representing people who came forward to report sexual misconduct, as its Person of the Year. It’s a recognition of the cultural reckoning this year and the #MeToo movement, which represents the people...
Southeast / Georgia - 1 year ago
The Today show is a-searching for someone to take up the space that longtime host Matt Lauer was rightly booted off of after being accused of sexual misconduct, and it looks as if MSNBC Live anchor Craig Melvin is in the running. NBC News co-anch...
Southeast / Georgia - 1 year ago
The City of Atlanta Municipal Clerk has posted unofficial results from yesterday’s runoff here: https://www.atlantaga.gov/…/2017-city…/2017-election-results. The certified results will also be posted to the same page once they are received in...
Southeast / Georgia - 1 year ago
Keisha Lance Bottoms is declaring victory this morning as Atlanta’s 60th mayor in a contentious runoff race that gave her a slim margin of 759 votes over her opponent Mary Norwood. Norwood has requested a recount of the election that grabbed headlin...