“Momentum for Nate Jester’s Council District 11 Campaign Continues to Grow” Atlanta, Georgia – July 10, 2025 – Nate Jester, a Marine Corps veteran, Harvard-educated attorney, small business owner and Southwest Atlanta native announced today his campaign for Atlanta City Council District 11 raised over 116,000 dollars in its first two months powered by over 300 individual contributors. A proud product of Atlanta Public Schools, Jester is a Mays High graduate who launched his campaign to bring bold, new, accountable leadership to District 11. His early fundraising success follows major…
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As the local television, radio and newspaper advertising depicts, they are “the few, the proud” and if things work out November 4th, former U. S. Marine Nate Jester could become the newest member of the Atlanta City Council, and Jester’s military accolades didn’t stop there. The scholar-graduate of southwest Atlanta’s Benjamin E. Mays High School decided the Naval Academy at Annapolis would be his next step. Four years later and with the coveted nomination for enrollment from 5th district Congressmember John Lewis, Jester spent five years wearing a sailor’s cap.…
Two years into the 90s, my nephew, the first born of the next generation graduated from high school and decided to celebrate with a friend at a skating rink near his home. A few tough guys from a rival school threatened him, accusing them of being there to “take our girls.” One claimed to have a gun. This sent my nephew and his pal into a corner convenience store near his home where he asked the Korean owner to phone police. Instead of calling police, he pulled out a shotgun,…
By Susan Gonsalves Columbine. Parkland. Uvalde. Sandy Hook. Those recognizable references spark a myriad of memories and emotions. According to the K-12 Violence Project’s school shooting database, 2024 saw the second highest number of incidents at 330 or 19 less than an all-time high of 349 recorded in 2023. Elementary schools were targeted 87 times while middle and high schools had 28 and 183 incidents, respectively. 2025 is continuing this disturbing trend with 41 reported school shootings as of this month. Additionally, an uptick in bomb and shooting threats and…
By Donovan McNeal Howard University News Service Climate experts and organizations are concerned for the environment and the effect on the public with the flurry of executive orders from President Donald Trump during his second term. Among these is a second withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, an international treaty with the goal of decreasing the global average temperature to well below 2 degrees Celsius. President Trump withdrew the U.S. from this same agreement in his previous term. The U.S., Iran, Libya and Yemen are the only four countries not…
Movement for National Support Launched By Black Churches Reverend Dr. Joseph Evans and Reverend Dr. Warren H. Stewart, Sr. conceived and birthed the ‘Credo,’ a statement of beliefs that guide our beloved community, standing in opposition to ‘Project 2025’ and its intents and objectives. “We believe this Credo is inspired by the Spirit of the Lord. Therefore, our Credo is not a reaction to Project 2025. Instead, it is an ethical response to white Christian Nationalism,” says Reverend Dr. Joseph Evans. Evans adds that “The Credo was conceived by the…
