You are cordially invited to attend Lay Day Worship Service Sunday, October 9, 2022 10:00 am Guest Speaker: Ms. Stephanie L. Young, Executive Director “When We All Vote” Presented by Edge-Cannon Lay Organization Mr. Guy Howard, President Big Bethel AME Church 220 Auburn Avenue NE Atlanta, Georgia 30303-2602 Reverend John Foster, Ph. D., Senior Pastor
Legal Notices
Senator Reverend Warnock’s legislation, the Invest to Protect Act, will provide federal funding for training, equipment, mental health support, officer recruitment and retention to support small law enforcement agencies in Georgia and across the country. This bill makes critical investments to increase officer safety, fund de-escalation and domestic violence training, purchase body worn cameras and more. Senator Reverend Warnock: “I’m glad the House passed my bipartisan legislation to help keep our families and communities in Georgia safe by strengthening critical support for our small local law enforcement agencies.” The Invest…
The cities of Fulton County invite members of the media to attend their presentation Friday morning as they make their case in mediation for preserving their fair share of Local Option Sales Tax (LOST) dollars. The cities and county must agree on a plan to distribute the revenues between the county and city over the next decade by the end of the year or the tax lapses. Currently, Fulton County receives less than 5 percent of LOST revenues because less than 1,000 residents live in unincorporated areas of the county,…
By Bettianne Hart In anticipation of the rigorous confirmation hearings awaiting the nation’s first African-American woman nominee to the Supreme Court, dozens of Atlanta women joined hundreds of other women to rally for confirmation and show support for Judge Jackson. Rally organizers convened by the National Council of Negro Women and the Black Women’s Roundtable of the National Council on Black Civic Participation brought together leaders of national women’s groups, including sororities and labor groups to mark the historic event. Melanie L. Campbell, CEO and convener of the BWR led…
Decatur, Georgia – Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04), a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee and chairman of the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet, released the following statement on President Biden’s nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to serve as the next Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court: “Today, during Black History Month and two years to the day after his public vow to nominate a Black woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court, President Joe…
Why Isn’t the Name Leah Ward Sears on the Short List for SCOTUS? The announcement of the retirement of US Supreme Court judge Stephen Breyer has generated a plethora of projected successors and especially after word leaked from “reliable” sources that U. S. President Joseph Biden would keep a campaign promise to nominate a Black woman as a replacement. We wish them all well. Conversely, this writer and the newspaper I write for are pondering why the name of former Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears was not…
