“We have made so much progress over the past 50 years toward genuine human equity, yet still our society is tortured by racial injustice and the danger it poses to us all,” Douglas Blackmon wrote.
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Chattahoochee Brick Co. site secured, set to become memorial and city park
By Hannah E. Jones The Chattahoochee Brick Company, now a vast, overgrown industrial plot nestled in Northwest Atlanta, was the site of some of the greatest injustices in our state’s history. Today, though, the city is reclaiming that space. After over a year of negotiations, the City of Atlanta is finally set to purchase the […]
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EXCLUSIVE: Chattahoochee Brick Co. site secured, set to become memorial and city park
By Hannah E. Jones The Chattahoochee Brick Company, now a vast, overgrown industrial plot nestled in Northwest Atlanta, was the site of some of the greatest injustices in our state’s history. Today, though, the city is reclaiming that space. After over a year of negotiations, the City of Atlanta is finally set to purchase the […]
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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.
