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Activists, Atlanta City Hall, theGrio.com
December 15, 2023
Lawyers for Atlanta ask a federal appeals court to kill the 'Stop Cop City' petition seeking a referendum.
District Attorney for Fulton County Fani Willis, theGrio.com
December 14, 2023
District Attorney for Fulton County Fani Willis says it's a “silly notion” that Donald Trump's case should be paused just…
Georgia redistricting map
December 13, 2023
Alpha Phi Alpha has filed legal objections to Georgia's new political maps, contending they still don't favor Black voters, as…
Hannah Payne trial
December 13, 2023
It took jurors only two hours to find Hannah Payne guilty of all charges, including felony murder, in the shooting…
December 8, 2023
Atlanta police have arrested a woman who's accused of trying to burn down the birthplace of the Rev. Martin Luther King…
November 30, 2023
County commissioners in Georgia are asking a judge to throw out a lawsuit by Black residents descended from slaves who fear new…
Georgia redistricting map
November 30, 2023
A proposed Georgia Senate redistricting map would create two new Black majority districts following a judge's order.
November 26, 2023
Opening statements are expected this week in Atlanta in the trial of rapper Young Thug, who’s accused of co-founding a criminal…
Reserve at LaVista Walk Atlanta apartment fire concerns
November 20, 2023
Several tenants are filing a class action lawsuit after they lost belongings in an apartment fire at Reserve at LaVista…
November 14, 2023
A 5-year-old girl whose body was found encased in concrete and dumped in the woods of rural southeast Georgia has…
November 2, 2023
Georgia says it will appeal a judge's order to redraw some congressional and state legislative districts, but that it won't fight in…
October 29, 2023
Tracy Cole, the grandson of Freddy Cole, one of Nat King Cole’s three brothers, was stabbed to death in Atlanta…
Stacey Abrams, theGrio.com
October 27, 2023
The plaintiffs argue that the actions of a conservative voting organization violated a section of the 1965 Voting Rights Act....
Redistricting Georgia, theGrio.com
October 26, 2023
U.S. District Judge Steve Jones said he would not allow the 2024 elections to be conducted using districts he has…
Morehouse College student loan debt theGrio.com
October 23, 2023
Nearly 3,000 students attending Atlanta's Morehouse College will no longer be burdened by institution-owed student loan debt.
October 20, 2023
They are demanding answers and justice after the deaths of their loved ones, who are among 10 who died in…
October 8, 2023
Georgia soon will become the first state in the nation to offer medical marijuana products at independent pharmacies, state officials…
Black children taken Tennessee traffic stop
September 28, 2023
A Black man cannot release unredacted bodycam footage of a traffic stop that led to his children being put in…
Prisoners organ donation -- Michael Lewis Georgia
September 28, 2023
Michael Lewis, one of the youngest children sentenced to a Georgia prison in 1997, is a free man after 26…
September 26, 2023
A Black man says the use of facial recognition technology by a sheriff's detective in Louisiana led to his arrest…