When one thinks of influential Atlantans who played a role in shaping our city, a lot of names come to mind. Frank Quarles, however, is probably not one of them, and that’s a shame. The Reverend Frank Quarles was a former slave who founded Atlanta’s Friendship Baptist Church and his role in shaping the future […]
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Reporter’s Notebook: Georgia becomes first state to repeal citizen’s arrest law
Over the weekend, Colonial Pipeline, which fuels much of the East coast, shut down its services after a ransomware attack. 49% of Georgia gas stations are without gas, according to CNN. The pipeline restarted Wednesday, May 12, but it could take a few days for things to return to business as usual. In the meantime, […]
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AUCC announced vaccine requirements for students, staff for future semesters
The historically Black academic consortium will continue to follow CDC guidelines to combat the threat of COVID-19 and the production of new variants of the virus. By Allison Joyner The Atlanta University Center Consortium (AUCC), which consist of Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, Morehouse School of Medicine, Spelman College and the AUC Robert Woodruff Library, […]
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Apple, Southern Company to invest $25 million for AUC’s Propel Center
The center aims to promote and support career opportunities for communities of color. By Allison Joyner Last week, Apple, along with regional energy utility Southern Company announced a partnership to build a first-of-its-kind global innovation and learning hub for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) at the Atlanta University Center. Dubbed the Propel Center, the […]
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Futurist computer research to be made available by IBM at two Atlanta HBCUs
A cure for COVID-19 is the potential result of a new type of research that IBM is providing through a diversity initiative that includes two Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Atlanta.
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Reporter’s Notebook July 10: COVID-19 is not going away
Why some high school students are worried about PPE supplies in Atlanta
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Atlanta – save Gaines Hall – a building too important to die
It’s been more than two years since historic Gaines Hall caught on fire – and little has been done to save one of the oldest and most significant buildings in Atlanta.
Gaines Hall continues to deteriorate in front of our eyes – a victim of the natural elements as well as inadequate fire insurance coverage. The building also has been in the middle of a hotly contested legal battle between the City of Atlanta’s Invest Atlanta and Clark Atlanta University over who owns land that used to belong to Morris Brown College.
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Court of Appeals rules that Clark Atlanta owns 13 acres the City bought from Morris Brown
The City of Atlanta’s Invest Atlanta has lost another legal ruling over its ownership rights of about 13 acres it thought it had acquired from Morris Brown College in June 2014.
The problem, then as now, was that Clark Atlanta University argued that it actually held the reversionary rights to that property.
