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Dogwood Festival on a chilly Friday – Piedmont Park – April 8, 2022
After 86 years, the Atlanta Dogwood Festival is facing an uncertain future. Read Maria Saporta’s conversation with the Festival’s executive director, Brian Hill.
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Dogwood Festival on a cool weekend – Piedmont Park- April 9 & 10, 2022
After 86 years, the Atlanta Dogwood Festival is facing an uncertain future. Read Maria Saporta’s conversation with the Festival’s executive director, Brian Hill
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Friends, colleagues remember career of Doris Derby
The civil rights activist and photographer died of cancer at the age of 82. By Allison Joyner Last week, acclaimed author, photographer and civil rights activist Dr. Doris Derby passed away, but the memories she left with the people she loved didn’t. “She was a scholar, an artist and chronicler of our culture so she […]
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Delta, Georgia Tech leaders, discusses climate solutions for businesses at Atlanta Press Club event
Both agree that this is a critical issue that needs to be addressed today. By Allison Joyner Yesterday, the Atlanta Press Club hosted their Newsmaker Leadership Series. The conversation centered on how the global business sector can improve problems with pollution. Moderated by SaportaReport’s Maria Saporta and CNN’s Nick Valencia, leaders from Delta Airlines and […]
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A football legend starts a tradition
They say that football is a contact sport. Those who’ve actually played the game disagree. Basketball, they say, is a contact sport…football is a collision sport. Football is a tough and strategic game and the difference between winning and losing on any given Sunday often comes down to a thin, undefinable characteristic. There are no […]
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YWCA of Greater Atlanta announces Sharmen Gowens retiring as CEO
The nonprofit said she had been a mobilizing force where diverse groups of women identify community problems, advocate for solutions and create more equitable communities. The YWCA of Greater Atlanta has announced that Sharmen Gowens, the organization’s CEO, will retire after seven years of leadership. “It’s one of those things that we knew would come […]
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Black Women’s History Month: Dr. Audra Pittman wants you to ‘think about what’s next’
As the vice president of SCAD Atlanta, she works under the school’s visionary and founder Paula Wallace. By Allison Joyner As the world evolves into a cohesive space for education today, administrators are trying to find more effective ways to teach the next generation of scholars. “I think with academia, it’s hard for people to […]
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Out of tragedy came opportunity
One of the more interesting aspects of a circus is that it is, essentially, a visual art form. Unlike almost any other form of public performance, television, radio or movies to name a few, one does not need to speak the language of one’s audience to put on a circus. And though the circus has […]
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Peachtree Shared Street Removal Protest – March 14, 2022
Read Carden Wyckoff’s Guest Column about the Peachtree Shared Space project: Mayor Dickens: Move Atlanta forward with Shared Peachtree today
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‘Indirect threat’ sends Morehouse into shelter-in-place
Clark Atlanta, Spelman received similar threats earlier this year. By Allison Joyner Yesterday, Morehouse College Police Department (MCPD) issued a shelter-in-place alert after they received word of a suspicious package on campus. “Morehouse College received an indirect threat concerning a suspicious package placed on campus which might have contained explosive wiring,” Dr. David Thomas, president […]
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Black Women’s History Month: Black and missing
Although African Americans make up only 13 percent of the population, 40 percent of the missing person population in this country are people of color. By Allison Joyner African Americans turn up missing at a startling pace and generally speaking take four times as long for law enforcement to locate than whites. Several organizations, however, […]
