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Harrison Floyd -- Trump indictment Georgia
August 15, 2023
Two Black people are named in the federal criminal indictment brought against former president Donald Trump and 18 others in…
August 12, 2023
Nominees being considered for the public square in Savannah include a Black woman who taught formerly enslaved people to read…
Woman dies Atlanta jail -- Noni Battiste Kosoko thegrio.com
August 10, 2023
The family of Noni Battiste-Kosoko, a 19-year-old Black woman who died in an Atlanta jail last month, is seeking answers…
Black maternal health (1) thegrio.com
August 10, 2023
An Atlanta-area hospital is at the center of a lawsuit alleging a doctor's negligence led to a baby's decapitation during…
Lashawn Thompson death - Fulton County Jail, theGrio.com
August 6, 2023
Lashawn Thompson, 35, died covered in insects in September, three months after he was booked into the Fulton County Jail…
August 5, 2023
The City of Atlanta is allocating millions toward providing its homeless residents greater access to affordable living spaces.
Lake Lanier in Georgia
July 31, 2023
A 24-year-old man was electrocuted by an unknown source after jumping from his family's dock into Lake Lanier last week.
July 29, 2023
The signature drive is the most ambitious in terms of numbers that has ever been launched in a Georgia city.
July 19, 2023
A judge has refused to dismiss lawsuits alleging Georgia’s congressional and legislative districts illegally discriminate against Black voters.
July 18, 2023
An ongoing petition drive to halt the construction of a police and firefighter training center is “futile” and “invalid,” attorneys for the…
July 16, 2023
Law enforcement killed Longmore in Clayton County, and a Henry County sheriff’s deputy and Clayton County police officer were injured.
July 16, 2023
Victoria Bowles accused the UGA Athletics Association of negligent entrustment stemming from a fatal crash that caused her serious injuries.
July 16, 2023
A Georgia city is paying $600,000 to settle claims that a Black former police chief racially discriminated against two white…
July 15, 2023
The petitions seek to bar Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her office from continuing to prosecute the case…
Christine King Farris
July 15, 2023
Christine King Farris lied in state at the Georgia State Capitol Rotunda on Friday. She was the last living sibling…
Jail fence Adobe Stock
July 14, 2023
The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation into jail conditions in Georgia's most populous county.
July 13, 2023
It’s been 11 years since celebrity stylist Tameka Foster lost her son Kile tubing on the popular lake in Georgia…
July 12, 2023
A Georgia state legislator from Atlanta switched to the Republican Party on Tuesday.
July 6, 2023
Homemade “incendiary devices” caused a fire early Saturday at Atlanta police's current training center that destroyed APD motorcycles.
Effingham County School District
June 24, 2023
The lawsuit says the school principal told a student “to delete the video from her phone and told her not…