By Dr. Georgianne Thomas (Civil Rights Activist, Creator and Co-Executive Producer) and Reverend Alvelyn Sanders Swafford (Co-Executive Producer, Writer, Director, and Producer) Foot Soldiers: Class of 1964 Honors the Young Women Who Helped Carry the Movement — New Interdisciplinary Academic Book Coming Soon Atlanta, Georgia – The Atlanta Student Movement began in early 1960 when students from the six historically Black institutions of the Atlanta University Center organized to challenge racial segregation and discrimination in Atlanta. Inspired by the Greensboro sit-ins, Morehouse College students Lonnie King, Joseph Pierce, and Julian…
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ABL 42nd Annual Super Tuesday Conference Tuesday, October 20, 2026 8:00 am – 4:00 pm Atlanta Marriott Marquis 265 Peachtree Center Avenue NE Atlanta, Georgia 30303-7402 “One Great Day – Power Requires Action”
By Hazel Trice Edney Trice Edney Communications (TriceEdneyWire.com) – Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, a nationally renowned scholar, public intellectual and cultural critic, has urged an audience of HBCU students to use their historically Black college education to continue the “unfinished fight” by impacting and transforming America. “HBCUs are critical. They still produce most Black people who are educated in America. Right now, despite Harvard and Yale and Princeton and all of them, we got Morehouse, we got Spellman, we got Talladega, we got Livingstone, we got Tuskegee. They still produce…
By Dwayna Williams, Donna x DWAYNA https://donnaxdwayna.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/donnaxdwayna https://www.instagram.com/donnaxdwayna/ https://www.youtube.com/@DonnaxDWAYNA https://x.com/Donnaxdwayna Photos by Lashley / Zeriba Media On Saturday, September 19, from noon to 4:00 pm, at John Hope Community Center in Atlanta’s Castleberry Hill neighborhood, the Russell Family Enterprises, LLC invited Georgia residents to celebrate its 6th annual community event: “Russell Rocks the Block (RRTB).” Russell Rocks the Block Brings Community, Opportunity and Celebration to Castleberry Hill. Free Castleberry Hill Community Event Brings Jobs, Voting Resources, Food, Music, and Fun for All Ages. More than a free annual celebration,…
Atlanta, Georgia – September 1, 2026 – City Connect Partnership, a metro-Atlanta not-for-profit organization since 1999, previously known as My Brothers Keeper Outreach International. The organization was founded by Norris Knox who serves as its CEO and President and has worked in the Atlanta community with various non-profits in leadership roles, and is on a mission to curb senseless gun violence in our public and private schools, colleges, universities and on city streets and suburban communities throughout the country. City Connect Partnership has developed a gun violence initiative rightfully named…
Atlanta Bethel Community Church is hosting is National Night Out Event on Tuesday, August 4, 2026 from 5 – 8 pm at Atlanta Bethel Community Church parking lot, 953 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive NW in Atlanta, Georgia 30314, for Atlanta’s Washington Park Community. You are welcome to come and connect with others.
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