A Clayton County, Ga., mother is upset after local police used Facebook to notify her of her son’s death, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Scroll down…
One person has been killed in Bartow County after a tornado touched down in Adairsville. WSB-TV reporter Craig Lucie saw a tornado form directly in front of him as he arrived in Adairsville. Most of Georgia is under a tornado watch until 8 pm. Much of the state is also under a high wind warning, […]
Residents in South Newton County, Ga., are disturbed by the fact that Ku Klux Klan fliers were distributed throughout their neighborhoods and have summoned the…
A Georgia mother suffered major burns to her body as she tried to save four of her five children who ultimately died in a fire,…
Voters in Atlanta and throughout the state of Georgia have approved a constitutional amendment that gives the state more authority to create and approve charter schools. The amendment, which had strong support and opposition, passed by a 58-to-42 margin on Election Night. Supporters of the measure argued that its passage would mean more opportunities for […]
Two fathers embarrassed themselves and set a terrible example for children when they started a brawl at a Little League baseball game in Columbus, Georgia over the weekend. The fight reportedly started when Iram King, 36, told Charles Davidson, 38, to lower some music he was playing after a game between Northern Little League and […]
ATLANTA-Students at Camp Creek Elementary School in Lilburn, Georgia claim that a teacher organized a tag like slave and slave catcher game. While school officials admit that students did play a slavery-based game at recess, they deny that a teacher organized the activity. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: Ericka Lasley told Channel 2 that her 8-year-old […]
MACON, Ga. — Former Georgia state Sen. Robert Brown, who led the chamber’s Democrats from 2005 until this year, has been found dead at his home. Macon Police Department spokeswoman Jami Gaudet says the 61-year-old Brown died of a single gunshot wound to the head. Police said it was an apparent suicide. The 19-year senator […]
At one time, the state of Georgia was known as one of the easiest states for a Black man in which to get lynched. Between 1915 to 1970 a wave of Black Americans left the deep South to find new opportunities in cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Detroit and Chicago. A new story in […]
Four Georgia women are suing a nursing company because they say their management wouldn’t send black nurses to take care of white patients. The women claim Accord Services violated their civil rights by screening the nurses based on their race, and said that their leaders said the nurses were “too ghetto,” or “too black,” for […]
Filmmaker Michael Moore is calling for an economic boycott of Georgia over last week’s execution of Troy Anthony Davis. “I encourage everyone I know to never travel to Georgia, never buy anything made in Georgia, [and] to never do business in Georgia,” Moore said on his website this week. The award winning filmmaker and author […]
Hampton, Georgia — located in Henry County — has passed a law in which they will fine men who wear “saggy pants” $50 for their first offense. The amounts that come with repeated offenses are what have many critics up in arms. Hampton will fine repeat offenders $100, and third-time offenders $200. The town’s 5,100 […]
