A homeowner shot a Black teen in the head. The woman, who's White, was fearful of 'bad Blacks.'
A squabble at a council meeting in a Georgia city has caught the attention of the NAACP after a white councilman told his black counterpart that he should be working in a cotton field. The exchange took place in a recent Warner Robins City Council meeting near Macon, said Larry Holmes, president of the NAACP […]
VIA: AccessAtlanta If you’re planning to see Tyler Perry’s new play when it comes to Atlanta’s Fox Theatre in April, you need to be on time. Be. On. Time. “Sit the hell down!” Perry barked at late arrivals Tuesday night, breaking from character seconds after his entrance during the play’s stop in Macon. “Seven o’clock […]
VIA: CNN.com Otis Redding was proud to be a country boy. “You know what, Otis? You’re country,” lashes Carla Thomas in her 1967 duet with Redding, “Tramp.” “That’s all right,” Redding quickly responds. “You’re straight from the Georgia woods.” “That’s good,” Redding says. He meant it. He was born in Dawson, in southwest Georgia, and […]
