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Hate and extremism in Georgia was on the rise in 2023, according to the results of an annual report released this week by the Southern Poverty Law Center that tracks extremist groups across the U.S.
A former Athens-Clarke police officer has filed a federal lawsuit against the Athens-County government on the grounds he was discriminated against when he was fired in 2021 when he was alleged to ...
A Georgia police officer who acknowledged using an “inappropriate derogatory racial term” a decade ago was suspended on Thursday. Maj. Patrick The post Georgia officer admits to using ...
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.
In late May to June 2020, the high-profile murders of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery, along with the shooting of Breonna Taylor, led to a racial reckoning that greatly increased sentiment regarding systemic racism in the United States, with changes occurring in public opinion, government, industry, education and sports.
Additionally, on February 9, [17] they announced the creation of a biracial human relations committee to help address racial issues in the county. [ 16 ] [ 18 ] The committee included six white county leaders and six African-Americans, with three of the latter being appointed by the six white members and another two being appointed by Williams ...
Georgia's state superintendent of schools said Wednesday that he believes a new Advanced Placement course in African American Studies violates the state's law against teaching divisive racial ...
The way it was in the South: The Black experience in Georgia (University of Georgia Press, 2001). Grantham, Dewey W. "Georgia Politics and the Disfranchisement of the Negro." Georgia Historical Quarterly 32.1 (1948): 1-21. online; Hornsby, Alton. "Black Public Education in Atlanta, Georgia, 1954-1973: From Segregation to Segregation."