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Editorials
The Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr. has often said: “Christmas is about a homeless couple with a new baby.” Over a half-century ago while leading the SCLC in Cincinnati, Ohio, we (ministers, pastors and laypersons) demanded the leading department store to install a Black Santa Claus. This was one demand in addition to eleven other demands dealing with EEO, justice and human rights. The above protest generated a Christmas Boycott that created a brief return to the spiritual meaning of Christmas. Only a few people living today have any knowledge of…
By: Tonza Thomas, Executive Director of NAACP Georgia State Conference At the NAACP, our mission has always been clear: to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights for all people and to eliminate race-based discrimination. Economic empowerment is central to that mission. That’s why we feel compelled to speak out against federal legislation that would cap credit card interest rates, a well-meaning but misguided policy. On its surface, limiting credit card interest rates may seem like a consumer-friendly move—an attempt to shield Americans from the burden of…
Sending the National Guard to places where they are not needed, requested or desired – This seems to me to be a vicious hunger for power and dictatorship unfolding before our eyes. This kind of satanic abuse of governmental resources and presidential overreach of authority will go down in history as a vicious attack on democracy. The above danger will have, I believe, dangerous consequences for decades to come. The tragedy is, some Americans and elected officials, seem to be enjoying this vicious period in our national history. This will…
WASHINGTON, August 22, 2025 / PRNewswire/ – A coalition of Southern mayors, facilitated by Ohio River South, is calling on the Trump Administration to reverse course on proposed budget cuts and a potential reorganization within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that could dismantle key HIV and STI prevention programs and jeopardize national progress toward ending the HIV epidemic. In a joint letter sent this week to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the mayors raise alarms about the possible elimination of the CDC’s Division of HIV Prevention, along with reduced…
All of Atlanta’s 11 football-playing high schools are scheduled to kick off their grid seasons this weekend. Four of these schools will commence play this Thursday (August 14th); The Business Engineering Science Tech (BEST) Academy Eagles travel to Ellenwood, Georgia in DeKalb County to face Utopian Academy for the Arts at 7 pm; Douglass’s Astros journey to Cumming, Georgia to face West Forsyth at 7:30 pm and KIPP’s Atlanta Collegiate Warriors are in Fairburn, Georgia facing Landmark Christian at Lakewood Stadium. Two other teams also have Thursday night tilts. The…
