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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 ]
Snipes was the only African American to vote in a Democratic primary in Taylor County, Georgia. During this time, the white supremacist terrorist group KKK was in its prime. KKK members were responsible for multiple lynchings of black people who decided to vote following Snipes' murder. For example, two black couples were lynched five days ...
Video showing a traffic stop that led to the death of a 62-year-old Black deacon could be publicly released as early as Thursday, a lawyer for the Atlanta man's relatives said Monday after a ...
On June 1, 2020, David McAtee, a 53-year-old African-American man, was fatally shot by the Kentucky Army National Guard in Louisville during nationwide protests following the murder of George Floyd and the killing of Breonna Taylor. [2] [3] The Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) and National Guard were in the area to enforce a curfew ...
Now, newly released APD body cam videos shows the aftermath of the 18 January shooting at the site of the planned Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, known as Cop City, in DeKalb County.
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 shooting came in the wake of national social unrest and racial debate after the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, [5] [11] which inspired the Black Lives Matter movement. [18] As they had in other parts of the country, protests arose in Atlanta over race and police killings and use of excessive force. [12]
According to Philip Dray's At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America, the noted civil rights leader and scholar W. E. B. Du Bois, who lived in Atlanta at the time, was on his way to a scheduled meeting with Atlanta Constitution editor Joel Chandler Harris to discuss the lynching when he was informed that Hose's knuckles ...