This edition of GRIFF's Prayer is special for the people of Atlanta.

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The Greenville Police Department is investigating the incident as a hate crime, while the FBI announced plans to launch a civil rights probe.

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Muslim organizations have banded together to raise $100,000 in an effort to help rebuild Black churches in the South that were torched in recent months,…

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The seventh fire in 10 days to break out at a southern Black church may have been caused by lightning, the FBI announced Wednesday. Officials from…

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A federal law enforcement says the fire was not arson, yet there are concerns that the church was racially targeted.

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Exactly a week after a gunman massacred nine people at a historic Black church in South Carolina, police are investigating a deliberate fire that destroyed a predominantly…

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Two Florida boys became heroes after they rescued children from an Orange County mobile home fire on Tuesday. According to NBC affiliate WESH Orlando, Isiah Francis,…

Another fire has broken out at Tyler Perry Studios in southwest Atlanta. Atlanta firefighters were on the scene late Monday morning working to put out the fire. It’s the second blaze in recent months at the film studio. Fire officials haven’t released much information yet, but reports are saying that construction materials were on fire […]

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A four alarm fire damaged the huge Tyler Perry studio complex in southwest Atlanta Tuesday evening. Fox 5 Atlanta reports that it took over 100 firefighters and at least 20 trucks to put out the blaze that started around 8:40 p.m. It took about an hour to contain the fire. Thankfully there were no reports […]

Entertainment mogul Tyler Perry has offered to rebuild the home of an 88-year-old great-grandmother who lost all her belongings in a fire. PEOPLE is reporting that Perry reached out to an 88-year-old great-grandmother of seven, who lost everything when her house in Coweta County — just southwest of Atlanta — burned to the ground. The […]

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Rare concert footage and master recordings of reggae legend Bob Marley were destroyed in a fire in a studio in Aburi, Ghana.

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January and February are the months most people die in Georgia from home fires. Space Heaters are usually the cause since many people depend on them for economical home heating, but space heaters can be destructive and deadly. Remember these tips to avoid the dangers. 1.  Place your space heater in an isolated area.  John […]