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Rayshard Brooks was a 27-year-old African American restaurant worker who lived in Atlanta. [11] He had been married eight years and had three daughters and a stepson. [12] [13] In August 2014, he was convicted and sentenced to a year in prison on four counts, including false imprisonment and felony cruelty to children. [14]
By Saturday, May 30 at 5:30, 71 arrests had been made in Atlanta, and one demonstrator was reported shot. [14] [15] Also on May 30, after initially ordering two black college students to continue driving their car, Atlanta police pulled them from their car, broke a car window, and used Tasers to shock them.
The Taste of Soul Atlanta is a four-day annual summer event that celebrates soul food and African-American culture. [70] Atlanta Black Restaurant Week is an annual event that highlights and celebrates the unique contributions of Black-owned restaurants and Black culinary professionals to the city's food scene. [71] [72]
Atlanta mass shooting suspect Deion Patterson was angry at his “messed up” medication before he allegedly killed one woman and injured four others at a hospital in the city.
The George Floyd protests in Atlanta were a series of protests occurring in Atlanta, the capital and largest city of Georgia, United States.The protests were part of the George Floyd protests and, more broadly, the 2020–2021 United States racial unrest, which began shortly after the murder of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020.
The Niagara River was a destination for formerly enslaved African Americans escaping slavery in the South. [7] The descendants of Black Loyalists and African American refugees still live in Nova Scotia and Canada in the present day but they suffer from the same conditions of inequality as African Americans in the United States. [8]
In the following months, a group of men called "Night Riders" [a] terrorized black citizens, warning them to leave in 24 hours or be killed. Those who resisted were subjected to further harassment, including shots fired into their homes, or livestock killed. An estimated 98% of the black residents of Forsyth County left.
The Colored American of Augusta, Georgia, from December 30, 1865. This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in Georgia. It includes both current and historical newspapers. The first such newspaper in Georgia was The Colored American, founded in Augusta in 1865. [1] However, most were founded in Atlanta.