A $1 million grant from the National Park Service to renovate two historic homes in Vine City is a sign that finally Atlanta is grasping the value of preserving our unique Black history on the Westside.
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‘Wall Breaking’ ceremony starts construction for eSports degree program center at Morris Brown College
The program will be the first for a Historically Black College or University and in the state of Georgia. By Allison Joyner Dr. Kevin James, president of Morris Brown College and video game company Pharaoh’s Conclave, announced the Ronald Floyd Thomas Center for eSports and Innovation center during a “wall breaking” ceremony Tuesday. Both James […]
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Renovation of historic Fountain Hall gets major boost with grant for a new roof
Morris Brown’s Fountain Hall will get a new roof, thanks to a $500,000 grant from the National Park Service African American Civil Rights Grant.
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Fire damages historic building owned by Clark Atlanta University
Fire has damaged Furber Cottage, a boarded-up 1899 building that started life as a dormitory at what was then Atlanta University.
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Historic Fountain Hall receives grant from National Trust
Fountain Hall, the historic tower owned by Morris Brown College, has received an important $75,000 grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
In all, the National Trust announced Friday morning it was awarding a total of $1.6 million to 22 sites and organizations through its African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund.
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Let’s save Morris Brown before gentrification does it in
by King Williams Despite the foul weather last Tuesday, I joined maybe three dozen others on the vacant campus of Morris Brown College. We were all there standing in front of the historic Fountain Hall on the campus waiting for the unveiling of a new piece of public art for the university. The piece would […]
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Invest Atlanta reaches legal settlement with CAU; fate of Gaines Hall still unclear
The city of Atlanta’s Invest Atlanta has settled a lawsuit with Clark Atlanta University over a property dispute involving land that used to belong to Morris Brown College – including the historic Gaines Hall.
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Atlanta Housing Authority’s recent actions need further scrutiny
Recent actions by the Atlanta Housing Authority need to be viewed through a magnifying glass.
Despite owning hundreds of acres of land, AHA is spending millions of dollars to buy more land from the City of Atlanta, another public entity.
AHA couches these land deals as helping fulfill its goal to develop more affordable housing in the City of Atlanta. But over the past eight years, AHA has not developed any new housing units on its significant land holdings.
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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.
