Atlanta 
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SOURCE: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
3/2/2021
Georgia’s Center of Political Gravity Shifting Toward Atlanta
"As Georgia transforms from a Republican stronghold to the nation’s premier battleground state, a seismic geographic shift is underway."
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SOURCE: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
3/3/2021
New Bills Target Stone Mountain, Confederate Monuments Across Georgia
Two bills would act to broadly prohibit the maintenance or construction of Confederate monuments except in museums or on Civil War battlefields and authorize the state-chartered agency that maintains Stone Mountain Park to remove or modify the park's massive bas relief tribute to Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
1/21/2021
Georgia’s New Senators will Write the Next Chapter in Black-Jewish Relations
by Jeff Melnick
The history of the Leo Frank trial and lynching shows that, while both groups have faced prejudice and discrimination, "the glory of Black-Jewish relations has always been more aspirational than achieved." Georgia's two new senators have a chance to advance a coalition for progress and equity.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/3/2021
Ebenezer Baptist: MLK’s Church Makes New History In Georgia’s Senate Runoff
Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church was an incubator of the fight for voting rights; its current pastor seeks election as Georgia's U.S. Senator.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/2/2021
‘Year of the Reveal’: Runoffs Follow Pandemic, Protests and a Test of Atlanta’s Promise
Civil rights historian Calinda Lee places Atlanta at the center of political and economic changes in the south, but whether the change is deep or superficial remains to be seen.
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Terror in the City Too Busy to Hate: How the English Avenue School Bombing Challenged Atlanta’s Popular Myth of Racial Progress
by Max Blau and Todd Michney
Months before Atlanta’s public schools desegregated, someone bombed an all-Black school on the city’s Westside. On the 60th anniversary of that incident, Max Blau and Todd Michney revisit the forces that led to the attack and reflect on its legacy.
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SOURCE: New York Times
12/9/2020
How Atlanta’s Politics Overtook the Suburbs, Too
Kevin Kruse is among the scholars of Atlanta who offer insight on how the growth of the metro area has overcome the division between the city and its suburbs and turned Georgia purple.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
11/7/2020
Georgia’s Political Shift – a Tale of Urban and Suburban Change
by Jan Nijman
If Georgia is demographically and politically becoming unlike neighboring Republican strongholds like Alabama and Tennessee, it has, in some respects, moved in a similar direction as Arizona, where the two major metropolitan regions of Phoenix and Tucson make up over 80% of the state’s population, and where Democrats have improved their standing in recent years.
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SOURCE: Decaturish
9/16/2020
‘The Right Kind of Neighbors’ – Race and the Origins of Avondale Estates
by Kathryn Wilson
An Atlanta suburb's history connects to the history of American race relations, beginning as a planned all-white community with a segregated Black enclave and ties to the KKK.
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SOURCE: The Metropole (Urban History Association)
9/10/2020
A Neoliberal Love Story, From Public Housing To Golf: A Review Of East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story
by Courtney Rawlings
Courtney Rawlings argues that a recent documentary on public housing has a blind spot for the politics that make decent housing precarious or even unavailable to millions.
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
6/23/2020
“This Is Chaos:” Order Maintenance and the Fear of Black Anarchy in Atlanta
by Danielle Wiggins
Although the city has been called the "Black Mecca" of America, Black political leaders have long tried to suppress protest as part of a strategy to win over the city's business community. Today's protests reflect the limits of that strategy.
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SOURCE: Chattanooga Times-Free PRess
5/5/2020
Will Atlanta Child Murders Ever be Solved? Those Close to Case Fear Answer is 'No'
"Atlanta's Murdered and Missing" concluded Sunday with strong evidence that white supremacists may have been involved in the killings and the disappearances. Families of victims still despair of closure and justice.
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SOURCE: Daily Beast
3/25/2020
‘East Lake Meadows’ Reveals the Heartbreaking Reality of America’s Public-Housing Crisis
The Ken Burns-produced PBS documentary “East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story” examines our public-housing nightmare through the lens of a storied Atlanta housing project.
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SOURCE: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
5/31/2019
National Archives to host retrospective on African Americans in U.S.
A retrospective on the black odyssey in America is scheduled for later this month at the National Archives at Atlanta.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
3/17/19
Atlanta’s Civil War Monument, Minus the Pro-Confederate Bunkum
A new exhibition of a gigantic painting uses historical fact to dispel Lost Cause mythology.
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SOURCE: Smithsonian
11-29-18 (accessed)
Atlanta’s Famed Cyclorama Mural Will Tell the Truth About the Civil War Once Again
One of the war’s greatest battles was fought again and again on a spectacular canvas nearly 400 feet long. At last, the real history is being restored.
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SOURCE: The Times-Picayune
11-24-17
Atlanta's Confederate Avenue evokes Old South, but may get new name
Atlanta is among several cities -- including New Orleans, Baltimore, Dallas and Richmond, Virginia -- that have been reviewing Confederate symbols.
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SOURCE: NYT
6-21-14
Atlanta Summons the Past to Showcase the Present
Civil and Human Rights Museum to Open in Atlanta
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SOURCE: Der Spiegel
8-8-13
Did Coca Cola originate in Spain?
Locals believe that the Spanish town of Aielo de Malferit is where Coca-Cola originated -- and that the factory which developed the formula that inspired the world's best-selling soda has been cheated of its rightful place in history. Not to mention profits.It's allegedly the birthplace of the world's best-known soft drink, but these days, it's looking a little run-down. Lined with houses that are for sale, the streets of Aielo de Malferit in the province of Valencia are deserted. With the younger generation escaping chronic unemployment and moving to major cities such as Valencia, Barcelona and Madrid, only the elderly still live here.Gray-haired and bespectacled, 74-year-old Juan Micó wears a white lab coat as he pours a brown liquid into a thin glass tube. Shards of pale sunlight filter through the grimy windows of his factory, and a smell of damp wood pervades the air. "The grated kola nut and herbs blended with alcohol mature in a clay jug for a month," he explains. "What happens then is a secret." ...
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Why the Business Community and the GOP Base are Parting Ways on Immigration
by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
Executives have made little attempt to bridge the economic and political divides their predecessors created between workers and managers.
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