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LEAD STORY |
 'Mother of Voting Rights' honored
It was March 7, 1965 when a troop of state police officers and a band of voting rights activists faced off on a nondescript bridge in Selma, Alabama. The activists were intent on marching; the troopers intent on stopping them.
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 Deal a no-show at candidate forum
Deal or no Deal? That was the question looming over the Fulton County Commission's Assembly Hall on Monday night.
The Atlanta chapter of the National Black MBA Association had partnered with three other black organizations to invite all three registered gubernatorial candidates to a forum called, "Have The Informed Vote."
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METRO |
 Embattled Rangel buoyant at bash
NEW YORK – Some of the city's who's who in business, government and entertainment gathered at the posh Plaza hotel last week to celebrate the 80th birthday of embattled U.S. House member Charles Rangel.
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 Young entrepreneurs program paying dividends
On the eve of entering elite Atlanta colleges this fall, a precocious few might dare to declare: "I never want to go out and get a job."
Such is the case, though, with two students who emerged from an Atlanta Public Schools entrepreneurs program convinced that they can create jobs after they graduate from college – not apply for them. By A. Scott Walton - read more>> |
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LIFE AND STYLE |
 Voices across the color line
ATLANTA – You say you want a revolution? Well, put your money where your mouth is.
That's the message that rings loud and clear at the Atlanta History Center's "Voices Across the Color Line: The Atlanta Student Movement" exhibit inside the Kenan Research Center.
By A. Scott Walton - read more>>
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SPORTS |
 New Panthers coach brings new vision
For most college coaches, having to begin a football season with four road games would bring on a case of the grumbles and groans.
But not Clark-Atlanta University's brand new head man, Daryll McNeil.
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 Katrina: 5 years after the disaster
(NNPA) – On August 29, we will commemorate five years since Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, breaking through levees and drowning the city in torrents of water. Americans exhibited some of the most profound indifference to human beings in 2005 as thousands of New Orleans residents were stuck without food, water, or sanitation in the Superdome. By Julianne Malveaux - read more>> |
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