This weekend, get in the spooky spirit a little early with the Little 5 Points Halloween Parade and Festival. Grab your costume — whether funny and fantastical or gory and frightening — and head to Little 5 Points for two days of festive creepiness including events like the Silver Scream Spook Show and the Rainy […]
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Civic leader Danita Knight to become CEO of Atlanta’s YWCA
The YWCA of Greater Atlanta has selected Danita V. Knight to be its new CEO – succeeding Sharmen Gowens who announced her plans to retire earlier this year.
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Why is Black History Month in February, and is it still necessary?
President Gerald Ford officially recognized Black History Month during the U.S. bicentennial in 1976. By Allison Joyner For over 100 years, Black History Month has been in some form a celebration of the African Americans who contributed to reshaping the U.S. and the world. So how did this tradition begin and is it still necessary […]
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Despite Confederate monument removals, debate over effigies in Georgia still red-hot
Georgia has exorcised some of its Confederate ghosts in recent years, although many still haunt the state’s public spaces, casting shadows in communities that have largely matured since the horrors of the Civil War.
