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The Krog Street Tunnel is a tunnel in Atlanta known for its street art. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Built in 1913, the tunnel links the Cabbagetown , Reynoldstown, and Inman Park neighborhoods. It is part of the Eastside Trail of the BeltLine for bicyclists and pedestrians to cross Hulsey Yard.
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.
ATLANTA — In the latest public rebuke of Georgia’s controversial 2021 voting law, dozens of Black students and activists marched through the heart of historic Morehouse College on Saturday in ...
Notable protests and vigils were held in Atlanta, Bridgeport, Minneapolis, Nashville, Philadelphia, and Tucson from January 20–22, 2023. [193] Protests in Atlanta on January 21, 2023, briefly turned violent as some demonstrators threw objects, set police car on fire, and smashed windows of bank buildings with hammers. [194]
Unrest from protests in the last week has become so violent that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp declared a state of emergency on Thursday authorizing the use of as many as 1,000 Georgia National Guard ...
Free Nelson Mandela. Free Nelson Mandela is a sculpture in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, created by David Hammons in 1987. Alternatively referred to as a monument, the piece was originally created as a statement demanding the liberation of the imprisoned South African activist, Nelson Mandela.
Protests over the construction of a new 85-acre training center for police and firefighters in Atlanta have spread well beyond the city’s limits, and are gaining momentum across the country.
The Washington, D.C. Black Lives Matter mural painted in June 2020. On June 5, 2020, during the George Floyd protests, the DC Public Works Department painted the words "Black Lives Matter" in 35-foot-tall (11 m) yellow capital letters on 16th Street NW on the north of Lafayette Square, part of President's Park near the White House, with the assistance of the MuralsDC program of the DC ...