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Jimmy Carter to celebrate 98 with family, friends, baseball - The Atlanta Voice
ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter, alreadythe longest-living U.S. president in history, will celebrate his 98th birthday Saturday with family and friends in Plains, the tiny Georgia town where he and his wife, 95-year-old Rosalynn, were born in the years between World War I and the Grea
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Where in the World is Officer Gray?  - The Atlanta Voice
A police officer was a pillar in the Bankhead and Grove Park communities until, one day, he vanished IT WAS A SIMPLE QUESTION. At a Grove Park Neighborhood Association meeting earlier this year, residents voiced their concerns about the turnover rate for the Atlanta Police Departm
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King’s daughter slams twisting of critical race theory - The Atlanta Voice
Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter used an address Monday to push for federal voting rights legislation and slam the twisting of critical race theory to create what she called “false narratives.” Rev. Bernice King said there is a “very urgent need” for voting legislation, and that
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Meadows trying to avoid testifying in Georgia election probe - The Atlanta Voice
ATLANTA (AP) —Mark Meadows, former White House chief of staff, is trying to avoid having to testify before a Georgia special grand jury that’s investigating whether then-PresidentDonald Trumpand his allies illegally tried to influence the state’s 2020 election. Fulton County Distr
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Atlanta Technical hosts mayor, Acuity Brands to introduce pilot program, $1.8 million donation - The Atlanta Voice
City of Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens joined Atlanta Technical College leadership and local elected officials on Tuesday to announce donations amounting to over $1.8 million and a partnership between the college and Acuity Brands, an international lighting and building management co
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Libertarian candidate Chase Oliver gets his turn to speak - The Atlanta Voice
Savannah, Ga. - Everyone knows the men currently engaged in political battle for the right to represent the state of Georgia alongside Senator Jon Ossoff (D) in the Senate. First-year Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock and his challenger, political neophyte Herschel Walker are all b
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Network of Atlanta-based cocaine traffickers, money launderers, and fraudsters sentenced to years in prison and forfeiture of over $3.9 million - The Atlanta Voice
Tory Lenard Troup has been sentenced as the Atlanta-based leader of a ring of repeat offenders who moved large quantities of cocaine through Atlanta and laundered criminal proceeds using a network of bank accounts, business entities, and purchases of luxury and high-performance ca
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Butler: More Affordable Health Care Means Greater Equity and Progress in Georgia - The Atlanta Voice
I’ve dedicated much of my life to standing at the forefront of the civil rights movement and advocating for equity and justice in every facet of our society. I’ve fought and will continue to fight for the millions of Americans that feel as if they’ve never had a voice. Today, I’m
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Elections Time in Dekalb County School District  - The Atlanta Voice
Fall 2022 Principal Advisory Council (PAC) Established on September 17, 2016, the Principal Advisory Council (PAC) in DeKalb County School District (DCSD) was created to nurture a better understanding between parents, school employees, students, and community members; with a found
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Fulton County judge strikes down Georgia's six-week abortion ban - The Atlanta Voice
Tuesday afternoon, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney struck down Georgia’s six-week abortion ban. The ruling applies statewide. The ban had been in effect since July. The law, titled Georgia’s Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act, was written in 2019 an
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Hyundai to build $5.5 billion EV and battery plant in Georgia - The Atlanta Voice
Georgia will be home to Hyundai's first dedicated EV plant and battery manufacturing facility in the United States, the company announced Friday. Hyundai is investing almost $5.5 billion into the EV plant in Bryan County, Georgia, creating 8,100 new jobs. The plant expects to reac
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No. 2 UGA routs Auburn 42-10 in Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry - The Atlanta Voice
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Georgia gets held to an almost impossible standard these days. That goes with being the defending national champions. “I think we just got to play football,” quarterback Stetson Bennett said. “I mean, it’s just football. It’s X’s and O’s. It’s have fun with your
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CareSource Donates $25K to ARCHI Initiative - The Atlanta Voice
Nonprofit Medicare and Medicaid health care provider CareSource announced a $25,000 donation made to the Atlanta Regional Collaborative for Health Improvement on Monday, in order to fund the organization’s Statewide Community Health Network Development Initiative. ARCHI’s initiati
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Marjorie Taylor Greene testifies at hearing over whether she should be disqualified from running for reelection - The Atlanta Voice
(CNN) - A potentially precedent-setting disqualification hearing is underway Friday in an Atlanta courtroom, aimed at determining if Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia is constitutionally barred from running for reelection because of her role in the January 6 insurr
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2022 Elections: Senator Warnock outraises Herschel Walker for second straight quarter - The Atlanta Voice
The battle for the U.S. Senate seat Georgia is an expensive one. The fundraising arms race is a battle for messaging in an attempt to turnout the coveted undecided voter. Monday afternoon, Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock’s campaign announced it raised more than $26.3 million in t
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Video: Erin Taylor sues Chick-Fil-A for sexual harassment and discrimination - The Atlanta Voice
When Erin Taylor began training at a Decatur Chick-Fil-A to become a Director of Operations, she believed it was a turning point for her career. However, in a federal lawsuit, Taylor says she was subjected to “sexual harassment,” “discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation”
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Herschel Walker faces abortion allegation from 2nd accuser - The Atlanta Voice
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman came forward Wednesday to accuse Herschel Walker, the anti-abortion Republican running for U.S. Senate in Georgia, of encouraging and paying for her 1993 abortion — an accusation that came just weeks after a former girlfriend said he did the same for her
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Siblings in Atlanta Surprise Their Mom By Paying Off Her Mortgage | BlackPressUSA
THE FLORIDA STAR | THE GEORGIA STAR - Tony said he had always thought of giving this gift to his mother since he was 14-years old. So, for the last 2 years, he teamed up with his two sisters, Sheri and Jessica, to start saving up to finally make it happen.| June Hassan, a mother from
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Fulton County Early Voting Hours & Locations - The Atlanta Voice
EARLY VOTING HOURS: Monday, October 17 to Friday, November 4, 2022 Monday - Friday 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, October 22 & October 29: 7 a.m. - 7 p.m. Sunday, October 23 & October 30: 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. EARLY VOTING LOCATIONS: Asterisk* Indicates Absentee Ballot Drop Box Locations.
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Win for TrumpWorld: Fulton County absentee ballots will be unsealed & audited | BlackPressUSA
THE ATLANTA VOICE - “Voter confidence in our election system is the bedrock of our republic,” Loeffler said. “Unfortunately, inconsistencies in Fulton County’s November 2020 absentee ballots cast serious doubt on voters’ faith in our elections.| By Itoro N. Umontuen | The Atlanta Voice Friday
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Black Man March attempts to rally Black male vote - The Atlanta Voice
There are numerous Black candidates running for statewide offices and on the ballot in these midterm elections. And there will be millions of Black Georgians voting, either during the early voting period or on Election Day, Tuesday, November 8. That said, how many of those voters
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“It’s really up to us:’ Inequities in healthcare are addressed at the 2022 BDHEA summit - The Atlanta Voice
Just miles from where one of only two Level 1 trauma centers in Atlanta is scheduled to close at the end of the month , dozens of medical professionals, CEOs, COOs, hospital and healthcare system presidents and the media gathered for the 2022 Black Directors Health Equity Agenda (
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Stacey Abrams sues to get unlimited fundraising committee - The Atlanta Voice
Democrat Stacey Abrams filed suit Monday asking a federal judge to give a committee associated with her campaign for governor the immediate right to begin raising and spending unlimited sums under Georgia law. Abrams is challenging as unconstitutional a new kind of fundraising com
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Senator Warnock says runoff race will be about 'who is right for Georgia' - The Atlanta Voice
At the foot of the John Lewis Mural in Atlanta's Sweet Auburn District, Senator Reverend Raphael G. Warnock, D-Georgia, told the crowd of about one hundred people the runoff race between he and Republican Herschel Walker will be about who’s right for Georgia among other things. Mo
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Andre Dickens sworn-in as Atlanta's 61st mayor - The Atlanta Voice
Andre Dickens, 47, was officially sworn-in as the 61st Mayor of Atlanta Monday afternoon. The ceremony was held at his alma mater, the Georgia Institute of Technology inside Bobby Dodd Stadium. While attendees braced for frigid temperatures and fifteen mile per hour winds, Dickens
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2022 Elections: Protecting Georgians' right to vote in the final hours - The Atlanta Voice
On a press call with Democratic nominee for Georgia Secretary of State Bee Nguyen, she discussed her outlook regarding the administration of Georgia's midterm elections. Before she headed to the Pittsburgh community to mobilize volunteers and for one final get out the vote push, N
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Judge questions Abrams suit seeking unlimited contributions - The Atlanta Voice
ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge expressed skepticism Monday that he can give Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams the immediate right to begin raising and spending unlimited campaign contributions under Georgia law. U.S. District Judge Mark Cohen told a lawyer for Abrams’ gubernatorial c
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Georgia’s shifting politics force GOP to look beyond Atlanta - The Atlanta Voice
TOCCOA, Ga. (AP) — When Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp made one of his firstgeneral election campaignswings in August, he went straight to the modern heartland of the state’s Republican Party. It wasn’t Buckhead, the glitzy Atlanta neighborhood where Kemp lives in a governor’s mansion dw
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Atlanta Housing, City Partners Break Ground on Juanita H. Gardner Village - The Atlanta Voice
Atlanta - Atlanta Housing and its city partners broke ground Tuesday on the Juanita H. Gardner Village, a new construction project that will create 108 independent living senior units in a three-story elevator building in the Adamsville neighborhood. Ms. Gardner, after whom the pr
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Hearings begin on Georgia Power proposal to raise rates 12% - The Atlanta Voice
ATLANTA (AP) — State regulators begin hearings Tuesday on Georgia Power Co.’s request to raise rates by 12% over the next three years, setting up clashes over how much profit the utility should earn, how much solar panel owners should be paid and how rates should be structured. Th
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Georgia Republicans fire back at Stacey Abrams - The Atlanta Voice
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