Afro Home Afro Briefs Georgia’s First Black-Owned Beverage Company Launches By BlackNews.Com – May 28, 2020 567 0 FIRST BLACK-OWNED ALCOHOL BEVERAGE DISTRIBUTION COMPANY LAUNCHES IN GEORGIA Nationwide (BlackNews.com) — Scot G. Forte, founder and CEO of Forte International Spirits Inc./Direct Distributing, is the first African-American to launch an alcohol distributing company in the state of Georgia. The innovative company which has been making waves in the beverage industry this year has been embraced by suppliers worldwide. The industry that will continue to grow and perform well, even during the current crisis,…
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See a post of Shanta Crichlow entitled, “What Can I Do?” Shanta Crichlow is an alumna and former athlete of Georgia Tech and currently serves as the director of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) at Georgia Tech. https://mailchi.mp/246a59103fae/what-can-i-do https://my.fca.org/shanta_crichlow
Atlanta Metro Pastor Raises Questions to Help the Nation Move Toward Peace. “No Justice, No Peace” “When are we going to condemn systemic racism with the same moral urgency that we condemn riots?” Stone Mountain, Georgia – June 6, 2020 –– Dr. Kenneth L. Samuel (Victory for the World Church) challenged the nation’s leadership to practice Christian principals and condemn racism in the oppression and killing of Black people. In his sermon on Sunday, June 7, the Pastor of the Victory for the World Church located in Stone Mountain, GA,…
By Ronald J. Freeman, Sr., Esq. “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” – Frederick Douglass We have the POWER. Amadou Diallo, February 1999 (New York City) –Eric Garner, July 2014 (New York) – unarmed; Michael Brown, August, 2014 (Ferguson ) – unarmed; Walter Scott, April 2015 (North Charleston) – unarmed; Philando Castile, July 2016 (Minneapolis) – unarmed; Breonna Taylor, May, 2020 (Louisville) – unarmed George Floyd, May, 2020 (Minneapolis) – unarmed; 39 UNARMED African Americans were killed by the police in 2016. By…
In response the latest three deaths of unarmed Black Americans in our country, protests, both peaceful and riots, have erupted throughout the country. Citizens of many cultures unite to protest the seemingly unwarranted deaths and the vile law system that allows such deaths to happen and to carry on unpunished. Already a tense time due to the stressful COVID-19 pandemic, many citizens truly feel that law enforcement and racists are deliberately targeting and killing Blacks. “Blacks are being hunted.” In downtown Atlanta, peaceful protests tend to begin in the early…
CVS Health Expands Statewide COVID-19 Response By Opening 23 Additional New Drive-Thru Test Sites in Georgia Brings to 46 the total number of drive-thru test sites across the state Completes the company’s commitment to establish 1,000 test sites across the country by end of May Woonsocket, Rhode Island – Thursday, May 28, 2020 — Building on the company’s comprehensive efforts to help slow the spread of the virus, CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) today expanded its COVID-19 testing program by announcing 23 additional test sites at select CVS Pharmacy drive-thru locations…
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