Come out and support, participate, contribute to the SOS, Call to Manhood, Lock-in, Boys to Men, August 2-3, 2024, in Atlanta, Georgia. Date: August 2, 2024 at 6:00 pm; and August 3, 2024 at 8:00 am. Location: C. T. Martin Natatorium and Recreation Center 3201 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive SW Atlanta, Georgia 30311-1301 Open to males 8 years old to 15 years old Cost: Free Volunteers, Sponsors, Vendors and Contributors are welcome and needed. Call (404) 889-3008.
Education & Schools
As eighth graders, they were the big kids on their middle school campus. As they move on to ninth grade, they will be the youngest kids in high school. The new experience is daunting enough on its own, but with all the societal distractions present today, incoming freshmen have challenges their parents and grandparents never had to imagine. A new digital workshop, 829 Rising, guides incoming high school freshmen through an informative and motivating set of activities, as well as thought-provoking insights that let them know they’re more powerful than…
By Norris Knox Atlanta, Georgia – Longtime Atlanta radio industry veteran, entrepreneur and community advocate Norris Knox, has been serving in the Atlanta and Cobb County communities for over 56 years combined, since moving from Fort Jackson, South Carolina in 1969 as a 9-year-old. Many years later he would go on to co-find a carrier-current radio station at age11, as well as establish his own low-powered radio station at age 22. In 1999, he created My Brother’s Keepers Outreach International, a non-profit organization established to assist poor families and people…
The venue will help food entrepreneurs operating from Pittsburgh yards, as well as people in the area wanting to learn, develop, and create food concepts for the market. In his remarks made before the groundbreaking event, Chef Kev noted that his grandmother started this organization to help people in the community via a feeding program at the church. When she passed away in 2004, my mother took on the mantle, extended the program, and continued feeding the people. Around 2015, my mother suggested that I take on the role of…
In Atlanta, the 2024 Juneteenth street parade and music festival were held from Friday, June 21st, to Sunday, June 23rd. Juneteenth is now recognized as an annual national public holiday in America. The acceptance of the importance of this event was not fully acknowledged in the tapestry of the recorded American historical journey. June 19th, 1865, was the date when the last people under slavery in Texas were told that slavery had already ended. The enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas represented the final acknowledgement of the end of…
The NAACP Georgia State Conference (GSC) is taking part in a nationwide effort to advance health equity. Our mission is to eliminate the barriers to quality healthcare and preventive treatment for people of color with chronic diseases. One such disease that we are working to tackle is obesity, in large part, because it disproportionately impacts black Georgians and increases the likelihood of negative long-term health outcomes. Obesity was declared an epidemic over 20 years ago and now nearly 50% of Black Americans and 60% of black women are living with…
