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Timing will be just right for Atlanta’s Center for Civil and Human Rights

by Maria Saporta March 11, 2013 4:34 pmFebruary 17, 2023 3:10 pm

By Maria Saporta

In August, it will be the 50-year anniversary of the March on Washington and Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

And it is at the “50-year mark” when a major moment in history moves from being a memoriam to part of a legacy that can be connected to contemporary issues, according to Doug Shipman, president and CEO of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights.

If that’s the case, the Center’s timing is just about perfect. Construction on the Center, which will be located on the same block as the Georgia Aquarium and the World of Coca-Cola, began on March 4.

Shirley Franklin joining LBJ School of Public Affairs in Austin, Texas

by Maria Saporta January 15, 2013 9:58 pmFebruary 17, 2023 3:09 pm

By Maria Saporta

Former Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin will be splitting her loyalties between Atlanta and Austin.

The University of Texas in Austin announced that Franklin has joined the LBJ School of Public Affairs as the Barbara Jordan Visiting Professor in Ethics and Political Values.

In a Facebook posting Tuesday, Franklin wrote: “I am proud to be joining the University of Texas-Austin LBJ School of Public Affairs as the Barbara Jordan Visiting Professor……..Atlanta will be my home most of the time but it is an honor I simply could not pass up.”

Moments, Moments Season 1

Shirley Franklin’s most amazing Moment just might be her next one

by adminmegan January 9, 2012 11:06 amFebruary 17, 2023 3:05 pm

SaportaReport is re-running Season One of Moments for your enjoyment. This column originally published in January 2012.

When we sat down with former Atlanta mayor Shirley Franklin in the conference room of her new office at Purpose Built Communities where she is now the CEO, she was clear she wanted her Moment to be “strategic.” It wasn’t until we were packed up and leaving a little later that we truly understood her meaning – giving us a sense that she’s been strategic since she was a young child in a Philadelphia dance class.
Video Shirley Franklin’s HD Moments Video.

Moments, Moments Season 1

Sharing Clark Howard’s “Moment” recalled one of my own 20 years ago

by adminmegan December 19, 2011 8:29 pmFebruary 17, 2023 3:05 pm

A few weeks ago, I saw Clark Howard working out at the YMCA. He and I seemed to be on the same every-other-day schedule at the time. I try not to stop and talk to celebrities or well-known people. I have no interest in autographs and I try to respect their privacy. But Clark was a year ahead of me in high school and I had interviewed him once before for our school magazine in the early 1990s.

Moments, Moments Season 1

You are invited to watch our 1-Minute Video: “Moments” on SaportaReport

by adminmegan December 12, 2011 5:31 pmFebruary 17, 2023 3:04 pm

Please watch our one-minute video preview of “Moments,” our new weekly glimpse into the men and women whose own personal moments have changed metro Atlanta: http://goo.gl/uc5h0

Two former mayors, Sam Massell and Shirley Franklin, former Georgia Tech graduate student Ryan Gravel who envisioned the Beltline, radio personality Clark Howard – and many others who aren’t so famous – will share their insights into a time when everything changed in their lives. The videos will last only a minute, but we’ll place them into context with an adjoining column.