On Monday, Jan. 29, The King Center announced its plans to honor Dexter Scott King, the son of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., with a candlelight musical experience. King passed away on Jan. 22 after a battle with prostate cancer. He will be remembered at Ebenezer Baptist Church at 6:30 p.m. on Feb. 10. READ […]
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Saying farewell to Bunnie Jackson-Ransom
An outpouring of friends, family and civic leaders came to honor the life of Bunnie Jackson-Ransom on Monday.
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2022 HOPE Global Forum – Atlanta can be a model city for economic inclusion
The ninth annual HOPE Global Forum in Atlanta did not disappoint.
Once again, top business, civic and government leaders convened in Atlanta to share best practices of how to reduce poverty in lower-income communities and how to stimulate new economic wealth among those who need it most.
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Civic leader A.D. “Pete” Correll (1941-2021) – ‘He got stuff done’
A.D. “Pete” Correll, one of Atlanta’s most influential business leaders, died Tuesday afternoon after a long illness.
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“Ebenezer, Historic and Modern” by Kelly Jordan
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Ebenezer Baptist advances criminal justice campaign with holiday bailout
Ebenezer Baptist church and partners are raising money to bail out folks out of jail next week — in time for Father’s Day and Juneteenth. For the church, the bail-out is part of a larger focus on mass incarceration.
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Atlanta commemorates 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination
It was a day of sad memories as Atlanta marked the 50th anniversary of the assassination of its hometown spiritual leader – Martin Luther King Jr. – on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee.
At the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, King’s family gathered at King’s crypt to lay a wreath and to commemorate the actual moment of King’s death 50 years ago.
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GSU leading effort to get U.S. Civil Rights sites on the World Heritage list
An exhaustive effort is underway to catapult the international recognition of the modern Civil Rights movement in the South.
Thanks to a grant from the Alabama Department of Tourism, Georgia State University is shepherding the effort to get about a dozen Civil Rights landmarks to be nominated as World Heritage sites.
