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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]
Maynard Holbrook Jackson Jr. (March 23, 1938 – June 23, 2003) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 54th mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, from 1974 to 1982, and again as the city's 56th mayor from 1990 to 1994.
Unofficial reports ranged from 10–100 black Americans killed during the massacre. [8] According to the Atlanta History Center, some black Americans were hanged from lampposts; others were shot, beaten or stabbed to death. They were pulled from street cars and attacked on the street; white mobs invaded black neighborhoods, destroying homes and ...
Bullets recovered at the scene included 9 mm, .40 caliber H&K submachine gun bullets, and .40 caliber Glock ammunition. [21] Two of the 9 mm bullets were later recovered at the scene by the family's investigator, who found them embedded deep into the floor at the top of the stairwell and said they appeared to have been fired directly downwards into Robinson or the floor (although this was on ...
An Atlanta journalist published the letter a few days later. Horsford's name and case spread across the internet, starting with protestors in Cumming, Georgia, who included her name on their signs alongside the names of Black Americans killed by the police in recent years. [ 6 ]
In his book, The Broken Heart of America, Harvard professor Walter Johnson wrote that on many occasions throughout the history of the enslavement of Africans in the US, many instances of genocide occurred, instances which included the separation of men from their wives, effectively reducing the size of the African-American population. For a ...
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]
The Atlanta murders of 1979–1981, sometimes called the Atlanta child murders, are a series of murders committed in Atlanta, Georgia, between July 1979 and May 1981. Over the two-year period, at least 28 children, adolescents, and adults were killed.