Faith leaders, including the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, favor a national boycott of Georgia-based corporations, including Coca-Cola, Delta and Home Depot in response to new voting laws. By Allison Joyner Morris Brown College joins the list of organizations to call on a boycott of companies like Aflac, AT&T and Southern Company for not speaking […]
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Black Women’s History Month: Errin Haines
The Atlanta native and editor-at-large for The 19th* wants you to be informed about the issues that affect your world. By Allison Joyner If you told her two years ago that she would be working at an independent, nonprofit newsroom, she would have said you were crazy. But now Errin Haines is reporting on gender, […]
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Organizations sue Georgia secretary of state over purged voter rolls
National grassroots organization Black Voters Matter filed a federal lawsuit against Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger alleging he violated the National Voter Registration Act.
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Georgia’s 2018 elections brought out the best and worst in us
By King Williams On Nov. 4, 2008, in downtown Atlanta, I experienced one of the greatest moments of my life – the election of Barack Obama. Watching Obama’s victory in a friend’s apartment with a dozen others, there was a sense of collective joy that I had never felt in my life. People were celebrating […]
