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(Arvin Temkar / AJC)" width="1260" height="840" class=" " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1.5;max-width:78.75rem;max-height:52.5rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=2099" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: arvin.temkar@ajc.com</p></div></div></div></a><div class="story-info"><a class="headline " href="/uatl/trumps-smithsonian-how-the-presidents-latest-executive-order-threatens-to-change-how-history-is-observed/OHPF7QLXNBDH3HQ65WVD3G3XGM/"><h3>Trump’s Smithsonian order follows Reconstruction playbook in rewriting history</h3></a><p class="description">Historians, scholars and museum officials throughout Atlanta and the South fear the order could alter the way American history has been taught and digested for decades.</p></div></div><div class=" c-story-tease "><a href="/opinion/columnists/opinion-perry-greene-apologized-for-his-behavior-but-what-is-he-going-to-do-about-it/DRJVJAR2YNFF5JP2P3EOBOYDZA/" class="story-image "><div class="c-image-component image-landscape"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/F33KBZZLPJBGNDQBVLSLEHJU24.jpg?auth=579b20ce38f718e138a92ede73802956d76998e1e71a860cf1f28fc2f1c08329&width=1260&height=840&smart=true" alt="Perry Greene offers a public apology to a group of Muslim women on Friday, April 4, at Masjid Jafar Al-Rahmah Community Center in Johns Creek. (Caroline Silva / AJC)" width="1260" height="840" class=" " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1.5;max-width:78.75rem;max-height:52.5rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=2099" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: Caroline Silva / </p></div></div></div></a><div class="story-info"><div class="c-headline-label">OPINION</div><a class="headline " href="/opinion/columnists/opinion-perry-greene-apologized-for-his-behavior-but-what-is-he-going-to-do-about-it/DRJVJAR2YNFF5JP2P3EOBOYDZA/"><h3>RHONE: Perry Greene apologized for his behavior, but what is he going to do about it?</h3></a><p class="description">Days after the Anti-Muslim viral video landed on websites and news channels, Perry Greene once again appeared in front of cameras — this time with an apology. </p></div></div><div class=" c-story-tease "><a href="/uatl/veteran-hip-hop-producers-prince-paul-and-ray-murray-unite-for-404-day-music-event/KGQIZLEMVJBWPMJRIYTKL3KNOA/" class="story-image "><div class="c-image-component image-landscape"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/6T3KY5J2JJEOBL6RTCS7SUM55I.JPG?auth=abe9c11ac54c4f2b03bec685bfc3d9649a210b6670a6f8a5003701282a1f7b20&width=1260&height=840&smart=true" alt="Hip-hop producer and DJ 'Prince Paul' Huston is performing with Organized Noize member Ray Murray at Aisle 5 on April 4, 2025 in Atlanta." width="1260" height="840" class=" " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1.5;max-width:78.75rem;max-height:52.5rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=2099" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: Donald Hight</p></div></div></div></a><div class="story-info"><a class="headline " href="/uatl/veteran-hip-hop-producers-prince-paul-and-ray-murray-unite-for-404-day-music-event/KGQIZLEMVJBWPMJRIYTKL3KNOA/"><h3>Veteran hip-hop producers Prince Paul and Ray Murray unite for 404 Day music event</h3></a></div></div><div class=" c-story-tease "><a href="/news/404-day-atlanta-what-the-iconic-area-code-really-means/18198469-731a-47bd-993c-fc89b44252d2/" class="story-image story-image-video"><div class="c-image-component image-portrait"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/https%3A%2F%2Fd1fegwn2wjh0cs.cloudfront.net%2F04-04-2025%2Ft_e5144da44bdd44738c433c7b0eadc627_name_Screenshot_2025_04_04_at_2_09_14_PM.png?auth=a0bf5d9d2cb1327183dea61db2a6e0dbebaacc67bdcaf50ab0e0e267434b43e0&width=1260&height=840&smart=true" alt="ajc.com" width="1260" height="840" class=" " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1.5;max-width:78.75rem;max-height:52.5rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=2099" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div></div></div></div></a><div class="story-info"><a class="headline story-tease-video " href="/news/404-day-atlanta-what-the-iconic-area-code-really-means/18198469-731a-47bd-993c-fc89b44252d2/"><h3>404ward: What Atlanta's iconic area code really means</h3></a><p class="description">404ward is a signature UATL series that recognizes the people and brands moving Atlanta and Black culture forward. Credit: AJC | Getty| Fontes</p></div></div><div class=" c-story-tease "><a href="/education/morehouse-school-of-medicine-opens-center-named-after-longtime-georgia-lawmaker/ZSJ66XG3FVHQ7LJGEJHHW764YM/" class="story-image "><div class="c-image-component image-landscape"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/JB26RQBC7543VCDW2CCQUPNSFU.JPG?auth=e2cbb60bc27b1a790b5d19eea892fceefd36c4549f6059d95d6c0a59278c42d2&width=1260&height=840&smart=true" alt="Former Democratic state Rep. Calvin Smyre of Georgia was recognized by Gov. Brian Kemp, first lady Marty Kemp, and Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens at ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Calvin Smyre Education Conference Center at the Morehouse School of Medicine on Thursday." width="1260" height="840" class=" " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1.5;max-width:78.75rem;max-height:52.5rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=2099" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: Miguel Martinez/AJC</p></div></div></div></a><div class="story-info"><a class="headline " href="/education/morehouse-school-of-medicine-opens-center-named-after-longtime-georgia-lawmaker/ZSJ66XG3FVHQ7LJGEJHHW764YM/"><h3>Morehouse School of Medicine opens center named after longtime Georgia lawmaker</h3></a></div></div><div class=" c-story-tease "><a href="/opinion/columnists/rhone-in-atlanta-affordable-housing-is-key-to-the-american-dream/2MSABLFJ4ZGB7EP7F5MS7WK7VE/" class="story-image "><div class="c-image-component image-landscape"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/RFHX6R562RDGLUB4JKRFMO53CE.JPG?auth=80c96ff9993d04cb85b467f308869e8702b5a9fe1003850f70b9294e7227f3cd&width=1260&height=840&smart=true" alt="Workers build a single-family home in a development in south DeKalb on Thursday, March 20, 2025. (Arvin Temkar/AJC)" width="1260" height="840" class=" " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1.5;max-width:78.75rem;max-height:52.5rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=2099" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: arvin.temkar@ajc.com</p></div></div></div></a><div class="story-info"><div class="c-headline-label">OPINION</div><a class="headline " href="/opinion/columnists/rhone-in-atlanta-affordable-housing-is-key-to-the-american-dream/2MSABLFJ4ZGB7EP7F5MS7WK7VE/"><h3>RHONE: In Atlanta, affordable housing is key to the American dream</h3></a><p class="description">It isn’t often that someone I interviewed calls me years later. But my conversation with Dorice Nolan was different. 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(Natrice Miller/AJC)" width="1260" height="840" class=" " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1.5;max-width:78.75rem;max-height:52.5rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=2099" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: Natrice Miller / Natrice.Miller@ajc.com</p></div></div></div></a><div class="story-info"><a class="headline " href="/uatl/restaurateur-pinky-cole-speaks-with-uatl-about-the-future-of-slutty-vegan/22LSXQMXNVA43F3EJR43ABSPVA/"><h3>Restaurateur Pinky Cole speaks with UATL about the future of Slutty Vegan</h3></a><p class="description">In an interview with UATL, Slutty Vegan founder Aisha “Pinky” Cole said she has returned to the plant-based burger chain.</p></div></div><div class=" c-story-tease "><a href="/news/business/blank-donation-to-help-sustain-atlanta-black-entrepreneurship-center/DK45NH6UBNGPRMJOHNGHDI77KY/" class="story-image "><div class="c-image-component image-landscape"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/7Z3ISG3QYQOVHGSZWYJIS4VLNQ.JPG?auth=2fb20ddd808abe6a27d8409b94d61ce94e03ec080d819ba1e3fd4b388fce34b2&width=1260&height=840&smart=true" alt="The donation from the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation will help the Russell Innovation Center for Entrepreneurs support expansion of its facilities to provide programming and services for more Black business founders. (Miguel Martinez/AJC 2023)" width="1260" height="840" class=" " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1.5;max-width:78.75rem;max-height:52.5rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=2099" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: Miguel Martinez</p></div></div></div></a><div class="story-info"><a class="headline " href="/news/business/blank-donation-to-help-sustain-atlanta-black-entrepreneurship-center/DK45NH6UBNGPRMJOHNGHDI77KY/"><h3>Blank donation to help sustain Atlanta Black entrepreneurship center</h3></a><p class="description">The Arthur M. 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Is life so bad that he has nothing better to do than cruise parking lots and pick on young women?"},{"_id":"5VRGYJEBGRBLFFMMGUYWMAOPL4","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"At one point, one of the women asked Greene if he was Christian. I imagine she hoped to offer insight into Islam, a religion that Greene apparently knows nothing about. 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But exactly what is Greene planning to do to make sure that he doesn’t engage in that same behavior again?"},{"_id":"HC7TRFZQIRCAVFK3BUMD2OMLDQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"There is a difference between apologizing because the public witnessed your bad behavior and apologizing because you truly believe you did something wrong."},{"_id":"ZIFWNI4TGVAQFAW3DARYUWPSEI","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Apologies can have a real impact, even when they aren’t sincere."},{"_id":"2LF7XQML7ZA77BNI76ZU4KFI7E","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"They can serve to enforce rules of social conduct, and perhaps Greene’s acknowledgment that he veered outside the lines of acceptable behavior will reinforce the importance of those rules for everyone else."},{"_id":"UUEQ4UEL7FDZVMKL5NUR27FRFY","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"But a sincere apology doesn’t end at condemning your bad behavior. It also lets the person or people that you have harmed know exactly how you plan to do better."},{"_id":"RTHFKY224JDWLJM3K2RIQXTAPI","additional_properties":{"nofollow":false,"selectedStory":false,"sponsored":false,"openInNewTab":true},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"What is Ramadan and how do Muslims observe the Islamic holy month?","url":"https://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/what-is-ramadan-and-how-do-muslims-observe-the-islamic-holy-month/BWW7JRNZABDJ7BB7R4K4PO6NZA/"},{"_id":"JMQNUIGY75FHHN6HW34DIUPHGM","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Greene’s apology, at least the public version, included recognition of his having said mean and disrespectful things about Islam, but it felt as if he barely acknowledged the humans that he hurt in the process."},{"_id":"CZ7KIHNNKZBIZN5BA7LTQHQYEY","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"The Georgia chapter for The Council on American-Islamic Relations asked the Alpharetta Police Department to investigate the incident, but police said no crime was committed."},{"_id":"OSIXKSSYDBECDOTHQGMVNIX6GY","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"In a statement, the police department said “in our community all speech is protected — even the speech we may not agree with.”"},{"_id":"CHS4T5QQENHPDIKPYGCCR7M4NI","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Ali Jamal Awad, an attorney representing the three women involved in the incident, disagreed with that sentiment during the Friday news conference."},{"_id":"IS7VJO2V7ZHBJJ3QCSUBX6N2OU","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“Not all speech is free,” he said. “Some of it will cost you.”"},{"_id":"QQNQDPCZKNHORCX5BHINMG546A","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Awad said that Greene, in private discussions with the families and their attorneys, entertained the idea of contributing to a nonprofit organization that works to combat Islamophobia but noted they had not yet come to a resolution."},{"_id":"B47LDUVLEJACZNVVCZ2KBOBYCA","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Anyone who has ever had Greene’s brand of free speech directed at them has likely felt frustration, disgust and doubt that the responsible party will change."},{"_id":"QGBVNND6HZEDPK7CCGSNFUYMZ4","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"The choice to do better or not is Greene’s burden, and I hope the three young women let him carry it so they can move forward unencumbered, feeling more empowered to live as freely and openly as they desire and deserve."},{"_id":"4CEPMNHT3ZBBHOOFBCWCWE3EZM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743806006148},"type":"text","content":"<i>Read more on the Real Life blog (</i><a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/opinion/real-life-blog/\"><i>www.ajc.com/opinion/real-life-blog/</i></a><i>) and find Nedra on Facebook (</i><a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/AJCRealLifeColumn\"><i>www.facebook.com/AJCRealLifeColumn</i></a><i>) and X (</i><a href=\"https://twitter.com/nrhoneajc\"><i>@nrhoneajc</i></a><i>) or email her at </i><a href=\"mailto:Nedra.Rhone@ajc.com\"><i>nedra.rhone@ajc.com</i></a><i>.</i>"}],"subheadlines":{"basic":""},"description":{"basic":"Days after the Anti-Muslim viral video landed on websites and news channels, Perry Greene once again appeared in front of cameras — this time with an apology. 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They bombarded me.”"},{"_id":"D42AZW6YW5GK7OIZQY657MKCAE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743701670105},"type":"text","content":"The company opened a second location in Buckhead last year and Stephenson is one of six instructors working across the two studios. Stretch ATL is one of several Black-owned Pilates studios operating in metro Atlanta but she is often credited as one of the first."},{"_id":"ERI27FLZDRD6XMJIJMY5L6VIBU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743701670106},"type":"text","content":"Kemberly Deane fell in love with the mind-body connection of Pilates after pivoting from a career in tech and becoming a mother. “It was a way for me to fill my cup after a pregnancy. 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Sometimes you’ll play our own music without even considering that there may be words in there that shouldn’t be played among you. In your spaces, if I have braids today and then the next day I got a wig or whatever, you’ve got something to say about it. I don’t want to have to explain to you about why I have braids today and a bald head tomorrow."},{"_id":"VBMJJRLYTJFHNLINMEJYYE3VFU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743701670121},"type":"text","content":"“I don’t want to have to go through all that stuff just to get to Pilates,” she added."},{"_id":"6DAMWCZWXVAU3EOKH37HRNTJKM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743701670122},"type":"text","content":"By the time Tomlinson moved back to Atlanta, the scene had already benefited from the work of folks like Herbert and Stephenson. 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The idea came about after a group of friends visited her apartment off Ponce de Leon and expressed curiosity about her book collection, which included books by Morrison, Hughes and Maya Angelou. An avid reader since her youth, Mitchell was shocked her friends weren’t familiar with some of the books. She became eager to share them with as many people as possible."},{"_id":"WVK4JK2PU5BPJPSLZMIR4PZJ7A","additional_properties":{"_id":1742252479007},"type":"text","content":"Founded with her mother, Good Books ATL appeared at local festivals throughout the city, allowing people who might not have otherwise visited a bookstore the opportunity to peruse their collection of vintage, blacklisted books and the occasional modern release."},{"_id":"IBQTJSGYJNC2DBACONQSFLNVAY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742333724137},"type":"text","content":"The inventory is personally curated. 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I’m so honored that she said yes. … I wanted her to have the first word of ‘Prose’ because during the reporting [on] all the bookstores that were around during the ‘60s to the ‘90s, everyone had a Nikki Giovanni story. And all [of them were] positive.”"},{"_id":"67SZFRHWKNCTRJYH3YOP2R4VTA","additional_properties":{"_id":"YFFHAFIU4FBHLCYOFSIMJGUZGE"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Atlanta poet W.J. Lofton explores Black queer identity in new poetry book","url":"https://www.ajc.com/uatl/atlanta-poet-wj-lofton-explores-black-queer-identity-in-new-poetry-book/VGIBKO47LRCXJEBQ57XDZKDFO4/"},{"_id":"O55R4IL3N5B7PCJKRXUR6XIDIE","additional_properties":{"_id":1742252479014},"type":"text","content":"Another one was Ed Vaughn, owner of Detroit’s first Black-owned bookstore, which operated in the ‘60s and ‘70s, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2023. Prior to his death in 2024, Vaughn lived in Atlanta, where he and Mitchell bonded during the reporting for “Prose.”"},{"_id":"7Z5OBWWCZ5C75OS2QCX4YF6SOM","additional_properties":{"_id":1742333724147},"type":"text","content":"“One of the things about this book that I wasn’t expecting was getting to know so many beautiful elders,” Mitchell says. “All my best friends are in their 80s now,” Mitchell adds, laughing. “It’s just experiences that I really wouldn’t have had [otherwise]. ... My grandparents both passed during the pandemic and [I’d been] thinking I wouldn’t have that intergenerational relationship anymore. 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What I’ve seen, historically, is a city quick to celebrate and sell its Black culture but slow to address the needs of its everyday Black residents."},{"_id":"ISDYD24L5VBRVKJEB6BF3C26DM","additional_properties":{"_id":1742513971615},"type":"text","content":"And you might be asking who am I to question Atlanta’s place as the past, present or future Black mecca?"},{"_id":"QAT6OPB4NVHW5BDRXSFYWOPWVY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742513971616},"type":"text","content":"Let’s just say that my roots, love and frustrations for this city and its metro area run deep into that red clay. My experiences as a native, current resident and local journalist inform my perspective."},{"_id":"KLCAJJQDB5A4ZMNXH2YESHBCZI","additional_properties":{"_id":1734389797290},"type":"text","content":"I’m a 1984 Crawford-Long baby. My education came from Northwoods Montessori, DeKalb County Public Schools and Paideia. 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But wait, there’s more: In just over year — nearly three decades after the 1996 Olympic Games — the 2026 World Cup will bring an entire globe full of people, and <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/sports/atlanta-united/2026-world-cup-projected-to-generate-more-than-500-million-from-out-of-staters/XWHCVTQ6S5HANFSMD4WQ5UTL2E/\" target=\"_blank\">at least $500 million to the Black mecca</a>. Are Black folks set to cash in or will they be left out?"},{"_id":"TSW3SCOL5RFGVEZCKJYYCSH6CA","additional_properties":{"_id":1742513971627},"type":"text","content":"“I want to ensure that when the World Cup hits Atlanta next year, that it doesn’t just happen to Atlanta, but with Atlanta,” Mayor Andre Dickens said at <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/uatl/the-black-culture-highlights-from-dickens-state-of-the-city-address/7HH5MHAJQJGU7HDLZJ2TGS6MQ4/\" target=\"_blank\">his annual State of the City </a><a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/uatl/the-black-culture-highlights-from-dickens-state-of-the-city-address/7HH5MHAJQJGU7HDLZJ2TGS6MQ4/\" target=\"_blank\">address</a>, which took place during Black History Month and also functioned as a reelection pitch."},{"owner":{"sponsored":false,"id":"ajc"},"copyright":"Atlanta Journal-Constitution","address":{"street_address":"Mercedes-Benz Stadium","locality":"Atlanta","region":"GA"},"auth":{"1":"ffc58975be636152879d7fbd6ab354108125b14ad39af42df2bf93ea3208f3dd"},"caption":"Mayor Andre Dickens is all smiles reacting during the Host City announcement press conference for the 2026 World Cup at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Thursday, June 16, 2022, in Atlanta. 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said he’s most excited to see the up-and-coming generation of activists at the anniversary event, and believes it’s important for young leaders to realize the power of their votes and voices."},{"_id":"WG4FHON6RVHBBMAKA6V75QXD4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1742519325197},"type":"text","content":"“We can show them the impact they can have by engaging,” Reed said, adding that his responsibility as mayor is to help evolve the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement for growing leaders."},{"_id":"JWOM7HL5U5AQBNRMDN24Z4WQOQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742516653997},"type":"text","content":"“There’s no excuse for us to shy away from the battle that lies ahead,” Reed stated. “We have somewhat of a debt and a responsibility to pay it forward to future generations.”"},{"_id":"ZNQZKKR2ARCARKYWSKJJQEYZU4","type":"divider"},{"_id":"7CPSBYR5FFBWJBYF4ITL6MWTJI","additional_properties":{"_id":1742491340433},"type":"text","content":"<a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/uatl-membership/\"><i>Become a 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Court documents say the pair worked under various company names including A List Cosmetics, LLC, A List Smiles, A List Atlanta, A List Institute, Inc., and The Veneer Collection, Inc."},{"_id":"6SAHSYNQUZC4HKG53EVQ3OTIN4","additional_properties":{"_id":"4NH6W2EC6BFAHHVDOKVDPIAVJ4"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Is your ‘doctor’ a doctor under Georgia law?","url":"https://www.ajc.com/news/health-news/is-your-doctor-a-doctor-under-georgia-law/CJMJFULXRRDDTO7CN4GLCB5XDA/"},{"_id":"XUTXGLAVZFHGBL5XVSXK7EMYVM","additional_properties":{"_id":1741817946238},"type":"text","content":"According to the forfeiture complaint, Dillard advertised services including the installation of composite and porcelain veneers, braces installations, teeth whitening and deep cleanings. 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The organization says companies that “claim that they do not practice restorative dentistry and say they only provide certain “cosmetic services” is a red flag, in addition to alleged dentists who refuse to provide evidence of their license."},{"_id":"QURJWUUCWBFQFCEXDE65X7BORE","additional_properties":{"_id":1741817946243},"type":"text","content":"Dentistry can be a lucrative business. 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In 1995, he signed then-unknown female R&B quartet Destiny’s Child to his production company, Grass Roots Entertainment. He wrote and produced tracks on the group’s 1998 self-titled debut album, <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16KLZhhmarQ\" title=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16KLZhhmarQ\">1999’s “The Writing’s on the Wall”</a> and 2001’s “Survivor.”"},{"_id":"6KRVH5HNEZBI5MSD6YMIE5LLC4","additional_properties":{"_id":1741385301572},"type":"text","content":"In 2000, Wiggins signed with Motown Records and released his debut solo album, “Eyes Never Lie.” It scored a minor hit with <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GIFY7NI-OI\" title=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GIFY7NI-OI\">“(What’s Really Goin On) Strange Fruit.”</a> He would go on to write, produce for and collaborate with singers Keyshia Cole and <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NKOlNpSeCM\">Alicia Keys</a>."},{"_id":"IQNXVJIXQRDE5KXAXDSNWEDVIA","additional_properties":{"_id":1741385301573},"type":"text","content":"Cole, who was a longtime Atlanta resident, posted a tribute to Wiggins via her Instagram story with prayer and sad face emoji. “love you D.”"},{"_id":"O5WHTHRIXVHFFLBFRAWDTCQXWU","additional_properties":{"_id":1741385301574},"type":"text","content":"In October 2023, Tony! 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Newark native Tiana Seabrook-Mccargo <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18R8fZfEZG/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18R8fZfEZG/\">posted on Facebook</a> that she remembers when Wiggins pulled her onstage at a Clark Atlanta University performance in 1999."},{"_id":"7YCFODQPZBAO3FWB4VU3TJCITI","additional_properties":{"_id":1741385301580},"type":"text","content":"“Totally sad by his passing. That was one of the highlights of any concert I’ve ever been to,” she posted. “‘Slow Wine’ will always be my favorite.”"},{"_id":"3FVXM7YP4BBRZANNVYNJY27RI4","additional_properties":{"_id":1741385301581},"type":"text","content":"The family is asking that “you continue to respect our privacy. 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First, allowing our cars to form the basis of our identity (“this is me”) is the stink of capitalism that we can’t seem to shake. And second, anyone who thinks Musk’s erratic behavior began last year hasn’t been paying much attention."},{"_id":"PEADJ5IHV5D63A2W6LP7JMZX74","additional_properties":{"nofollow":false,"selectedStory":false,"sponsored":false,"_id":1741130198974,"openInNewTab":true},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Trump takes aim at the ‘EV mandate.’ Here’s how that could affect Georgia","url":"https://www.ajc.com/news/business/trump-takes-aim-at-the-ev-mandate-heres-how-that-could-affect-georgia/CPG7E6RPRVFNNGFYD32BORAT7U/"},{"_id":"EYJOSKGUJBGABDHJMFSLLR7J7M","additional_properties":{"_id":1741130198975},"type":"text","content":"It is true that in the past year Musk said his transgender daughter was “killed” by “the woke mind virus.” And yes, he gave that weird Nazi-esque salute. And sure, he’s currently turning the controversial Department of Government Efficiency into a one-man wrecking crew."},{"_id":"HS7K3RLKCBETLE7ZAUUBWKWZLE","additional_properties":{"_id":1741130198976},"type":"text","content":"But nothing about this feels new or even out of character."},{"_id":"JM4QIQENERFS7M3WSYYUOOZD4A","additional_properties":{"_id":1741130198977},"type":"text","content":"In 2010, he publicly excoriated his soon-to-be ex-wife and mother of six of his children. (One child died as an infant.) Musk now has 14 children. He has been sued for fraud at least three times by the Securities Exchange Commission — in 2018, 2023 and 2025. Business partners, executives, employees at his companies are all on record detailing the rage and fury in which Musk operates, noting his anger is inevitable."},{"_id":"O3S3L63QKBBALLD6IGTP36V42Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1741130198978},"type":"text","content":"His behavior has always been erratic, but we have elevated him to savior status by allowing his accomplishments to overshadow his deficiencies."},{"subtype":"youtube","referent":{"referent_properties":{"additional_properties":{"_id":1741130198979}},"provider":"https://www.youtube.com/oembed?maxwidth=560&maxheight=340&url=","service":"oembed","id":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUpOMSJ1MdU","type":"youtube"},"_id":"HLEHDMJJOZAQ3EWFBAVZMXDHW4","raw_oembed":{"author_name":"Saturday Night Live","provider_url":"https://www.youtube.com/","title":"Elon Musk Cold Open - SNL","type":"youtube","thumbnail_url":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CUpOMSJ1MdU/hqdefault.jpg","version":"1.0","thumbnail_height":360,"author_url":"https://www.youtube.com/@SaturdayNightLive","width":560,"thumbnail_width":480,"html":"<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/CUpOMSJ1MdU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen title=\"Elon Musk Cold Open - SNL\"></iframe>","_id":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUpOMSJ1MdU","additional_properties":{"_id":1741130198979},"provider_name":"YouTube","height":315},"type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"OL4VCMGYHBFSNJZUTQCDXJDRVM","additional_properties":{"_id":1741130198980},"type":"text","content":"Here’s a wake-up call. Musk has spent more than two decades since founding SpaceX showing us exactly who he is — a man driven by his desire to colonize Mars in time for his retirement."},{"_id":"HAOIFSRHARBWZOVP6W2PSENFW4","additional_properties":{"_id":1741130198981},"type":"text","content":"Elon Musk isn’t invested in saving this country. He is ready to exit this planet."},{"_id":"7REUS5KDZRDXBBFVWZ2QWVC3IU","additional_properties":{"_id":1741130198982},"type":"text","content":"Why would he care about preserving democracy on Earth?"},{"_id":"7VDGZXPVC5AMTMO66XWAMONASU","additional_properties":{"_id":1741130198983},"type":"text","content":"Our treatment of Musk, the man, is not unlike our early view of the automobile he created. Remember the days when his electric marvel was hailed for its high performance but maligned for its ordinary looks? Similarly, we praise Musk as an innovator with a great mind while we ignore the holes in his person."},{"_id":"W3FOGQEJ3RGKREUJFI5JBHJYFA","additional_properties":{"_id":1741130198984},"type":"text","content":"“If a Tesla wore pants, they’d be Dockers. Pleated ones, smelling of Tide, flanked by a dangling convention lanyard,” Ian Bogost wrote in the Atlantic in 2015. Bogost predicted Tesla would rid us of our passion for luxury cars by being the least sexy supercar on the market."},{"_id":"RHUTPONWHFA5RHZFOJ63EWN2NE","additional_properties":{"nofollow":false,"selectedStory":false,"sponsored":false,"_id":1741130198985,"openInNewTab":true},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"OPINION: 250,000 miles later, EV driver spreads gospel of going gas-free","url":"https://www.ajc.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-he-switched-to-an-ev-now-he-spreads-the-gospel-of-going-gas-free/3ERJXTEZ2RC5JFFAV4FPIJKVJM/"},{"_id":"LTWGEMWCAZDWDE44IO2KJEW2FY","additional_properties":{"_id":1741130198986},"type":"text","content":"My friend claims his Tesla is a magnet for women, but any woman who is impressed by a car deserves whatever lies under the hood. In a Tesla’s frunk — the word used to describe the empty storage space in the front of the car — that’s a whole lot of nothing."},{"_id":"ZUMFAVENXFCCJF46SYTON6VYUQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1741130198987},"type":"text","content":"I’m not suggesting Musk is empty, but watching the world’s richest man profit from billions in government contracts while axing federal workers is definitely giving soulless."},{"_id":"66A7PAEXMBEWHARG7G26Z7XJIY","additional_properties":{"_id":1741130198988},"type":"text","content":"Georgia is one of the top 10 states for electric vehicles, with just over 85,000 owners in 2023. About 26% percent of EV owners in the state drive Teslas."},{"_id":"MFKTR26HT5CE5OFS7RG34N4T7M","additional_properties":{"_id":1741130198989},"type":"text","content":"This weekend, the official Tesla Takedown makes its way to metro Atlanta with a planned protest at the showroom in Decatur. Early this week, more than 60 potential protesters had signed up."},{"_id":"TPDKJN4AFRDFTGX6MG37ADKF7Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1741130198990},"type":"text","content":"Laura Gordon, the event organizer, is new to activism but was so stupefied by the relative indifference some people have to Musk and his actions that she had to do something."},{"_id":"PP2JBXHKFFCPVGEOJ72CCUOZVE","additional_properties":{"_id":1741130198991},"type":"text","content":"Though opposed to the kind of property damage and trespassing that have threatened Tesla owners in recent weeks, Gordon believes Tesla drivers should not shrug off the impact of their choices in the same way society has minimized Musk’s deficiencies."},{"_id":"4P26GG6SJ5AOPPBGZZEI4J2K6I","additional_properties":{"_id":1741130198992},"type":"text","content":"“I believe people should divest from Tesla in any way they can,” Gordon said. “They should sell their vehicles, and they should sell their stock.”"},{"_id":"LOHQ62Y4WZDETPHUCD5XKLC3E4","additional_properties":{"_id":1741130198993},"type":"text","content":"I’m not sure how many Tesla drivers are ready to part with their cars in protest, but Tesla investors have parted with their dollars, with the company losing about $550 billion since the presidential inauguration."},{"_id":"22FU3QGJX5CTJLVIHOONZGCVUE","additional_properties":{"_id":1741130198994},"type":"text","content":"Meanwhile, Musk is busy slashing jobs and posting sophomoric humor on social media while warning us of “temporary hardships.”"},{"_id":"ERLI2YV64ZEVFGHULORVMQRP5U","additional_properties":{"_id":1741130198995},"type":"text","content":"Soon, he’ll be living it up on Mars leaving the rest of us to muddle through down here on Earth."},{"_id":"4CEPMNHT3ZBBHOOFBCWCWE3EZM","additional_properties":{"_id":1741103609069},"type":"text","content":"<i>Read more on the Real Life blog (</i><a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/opinion/real-life-blog/\"><i>www.ajc.com/opinion/real-life-blog/</i></a><i>) and find Nedra on Facebook (</i><a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/AJCRealLifeColumn\"><i>www.facebook.com/AJCRealLifeColumn</i></a><i>) and X (</i><a href=\"https://twitter.com/nrhoneajc\"><i>@nrhoneajc</i></a><i>) or email her at </i><a href=\"mailto:Nedra.Rhone@ajc.com\"><i>nedra.rhone@ajc.com</i></a><i>.</i>"}],"subheadlines":{"basic":""},"description":{"basic":"The Tesla Takedown makes its way to metro Atlanta with a planned protest at the showroom in Decatur. 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The 2026 competition is the largest yet, with 48 teams and 104 matches in cities across the United States, Canada and Mexico."},{"_id":"YKZQYBOBHNBIHN77BCG3SPWKEA","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"In effort to promote diversity and creativity, along with Austin, FIFA recruited 15 other musicians to create Sonic IDs unique to their hometowns. The idea is that the musicians will develop jams that represent a host city’s culture."},{"_id":"B3DUZ765ABDBVAOLYCYLXVIPTY","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Austin joins a list that includes Sango (Seattle), Tech N9ne (Kansas City) and DJ Jazzy Jeff (Philadelphia) putting their spin on <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmpzUm5j4OE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmpzUm5j4OE\">FIFA’s current theme</a>."},{"_id":"NWEPG2GOYVEUJHYO4LEMIYSMS4","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“We’re really excited to be a part of this. Thank you FIFA, thank you World Cup. Thank you ATL,” Austin said in a video message posted to his Instagram account."},{"_id":"VQO2MVGPONHRPL2J7BI3TQSQTE","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Starting June 15, Atlanta will host <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/sports/atlanta-united/atlanta-will-host-2026-world-cup-semifinal-game-plus-7-other-matches/RLBSQ7X7LBD6RB5CADDMM7BQLM/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.ajc.com/sports/atlanta-united/atlanta-will-host-2026-world-cup-semifinal-game-plus-7-other-matches/RLBSQ7X7LBD6RB5CADDMM7BQLM/\">eight World Cup matches at Mercedes-Benz Stadium</a>, concluding with a semifinal showdown on July 15."},{"_id":"VLBGKHU74BHYBGQDRES6ZXNVUI","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"The tournament started incorporating theme songs and soundtracks in the 1990 edition, which took place in Italy. When the United States hosted the tournament in 1994, “Gloryland” by Daryl Hall and Sounds of Blackness got the nod. "},{"_id":"SCO7EKMC2JAU5IBHZSW422OANY","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Other past songs have come from <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZDj2CnG5dE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZDj2CnG5dE\">Ricky Martin (1998)</a> and <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRpeEdMmmQ0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRpeEdMmmQ0\">Shakira (2010)</a>. Germany’s 2006 tracks included IL Divo and Toni Braxton’s “Time of Our Lives.” The most recent World Cup — which took place in 2022 in Qatar — <a href=\"https://open.spotify.com/album/5qgUwE4mhus7MiHbOIiNps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://open.spotify.com/album/5qgUwE4mhus7MiHbOIiNps\">came with an entire soundtrack</a>."},{"_id":"7JVU2QCNO5BBTP5G6YT6EGI6O4","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"From March 1 through March 16, FIFA will release a new Sonic ID and corresponding visuals, starting with Houston tropical bass outfit, Bombón."},{"_id":"BC663JG5VJFWHOQXJSH6XJXTXE","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“The project marks a milestone in the tournament’s legacy, blending global appeal with local flavor through music and sound,” according to a press release from FIFA, which noted that the soccer’s world governing body wants to create a musical anthology with the Sonic IDs."},{"_id":"Q523PK4WUVDJPBNZXYCI6QCG3Q","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“The Sound of Atlanta,” produced by Austin, will be released on March 6, and be available for streaming on Spotify, Apple Music and other platforms."},{"_id":"ZNQZKKR2ARCARKYWSKJJQEYZU4","type":"divider"},{"_id":"7CPSBYR5FFBWJBYF4ITL6MWTJI","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"<a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/uatl-membership/\"><i>Become a member of UATL</i></a><i> for more stories like this in our free newsletter and other membership benefits.</i>"},{"_id":"7JOEFZWJ3RETBHNHY6S5T3KSD4","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"<i>Follow </i><a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/itsUATL\" title=\"https://www.facebook.com/itsUATL\"><i>UATL on Facebook</i></a><i>,</i><a href=\"https://x.com/itsuatl\" title=\"https://x.com/itsuatl\"><i> on X</i></a><i>, </i><a href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@itsuatl\" title=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@itsuatl\"><i>TikTok</i></a><i> and </i><a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/itsuatl/\" title=\"https://www.instagram.com/itsuatl/\"><i>Instagram</i></a><i>.</i>"}],"subheadlines":{"basic":""},"description":{"basic":"Atlanta producer joins others in creating unique songs highlighting host cites."},"taxonomy":{"sections":[{"path":"/uatl","parent":{"default":"/"},"_website":"ajc","parent_id":"/","name":"UATL","description":"UATL provides sophisticated coverage of important issues in the Black community","_id":"/uatl","additional_properties":{"original":{"parent":{"default":"/","MainMenu2024":"/","ComposerNav":"/","subnav_homepage":null},"_admin":{"alias_ids":["/uatl"]},"navigation":{"nav_title":"UATL","cohort_desktop_image":"https://www.ajc.com/resizer/u9oT8sHgrFwM-4k0OVhMpmrjSEE=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/AC24LOAV3NDQNIEUSAU5NM34BM.png","cohort":"true","cohort_mobile_image":"https://www.ajc.com/resizer/W7PlcNYiF7A-LGlN05rksg5tyWU=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/363YOTHREFBFBFLTN6S7XZDZ3E.png","cohort_logo_image":"/resizer/oATjbNKHc-rXeDDYGL-LcBTO-3w=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/T5P2I73D6ZFABECDTUXOU2DNXE.png"},"site":{"site_url":"https://www.ajc.com/uatl/","site_keywords":null,"site_about":"UATL provides sophisticated coverage of important issues in the Black community","primary_color":"#E23229","site_description":"UATL provides sophisticated coverage of important issues in the Black community","site_title":"UATL","site_tagline":null},"inactive":false,"node_type":"section","_website":"ajc","name":"UATL","_id":"/uatl","ancestors":{"default":[],"MainMenu2024":["/"],"ComposerNav":["/"],"subnav_homepage":[]},"mobile_app":{"exclude_from_navigation":"false","webview":null,"exclude_from_web_site_navigation":null},"order":{"MainMenu2024":1007,"ComposerNav":1021}}},"_website_section_id":"ajc./uatl","type":"section","version":"0.6.0"},{"path":"/things-to-do","parent":{"default":"/"},"_website":"ajc","parent_id":"/","name":"Things to Do","description":"Find things to do in Atlanta, the AJC events calendar, Atlanta restaurants, Georgia festivals, things to do this weekend, Atlanta movie showtimes, festivals and concerts. 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DOGE’s database lists the total contract value of K.L. Scott’s agreement with the USDA as $25 million. But that figure is actually the potential value of the agreement. The contract was a blanket purchase agreement, meaning the ceiling of what could be spent was $25 million, not the amount that the agency was guaranteed to pay out. DOGE has also duplicated parts of the award in its list of contract savings, inflating that total."},{"_id":"NRNJA5FJ7ZAZHNL5UKUR6Z5M7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1740591915571},"type":"text","content":"In response to a request for comment, a consultant close to K.L. Scott replied with a link to a government database that gave more information about the value of the contract. 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The company did not respond to an emailed list of questions, but in the weeks since its agreement was terminated, the company has posted three new jobs on LinkedIn, including a federal Health & Human Services account manager and a federal proposal writer."},{"_id":"QDBLEWPQYNAGBPEV4CMZ6N32IM","additional_properties":{"_id":1740591915579},"type":"text","content":"But a recent court ruling could affect the contract’s termination. A federal judge on Friday <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/judge-largely-blocks-trumps-executive-orders-ending-federal-support-for-dei-programs/PMD3T7ZOSZD4RJXSA7MH3ZC5ZQ/\" target=\"_blank\">issued a preliminary injunction</a> blocking the administration from, among other things, implementing a provision of one of the president’s <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/business/trump-dei-executive-orders-frustrate-and-motivate-business-civic-leaders/LICBPNOVLRDUHOQUATLB24S7IU/\" target=\"_blank\">executive orders</a> targeting diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that required federal agencies to terminate “equity-related grants or contracts.”"},{"_id":"N2A72AKIAFGYXDWMLD6F4F7MPA","additional_properties":{"_id":1740591915580},"type":"text","content":"The administration has appealed the decision, but if the courts continue to rule against Trump, it’s unclear if the termination of K.L. 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Former President Jimmy Carter’s office at the Carter Center, a benefit that ended with his death, weeks before the new administration came into power, according to <a href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/live-blog/trump-executive-orders-cabinet-expands-live-updates-rcna193104/rcrd73511?canonicalCard=true\" target=\"_blank\">NBC News</a>."},{"_id":"L7FLPVAGIFH3JE67XSIQ3PEY2A","additional_properties":{"_id":1740591915584},"type":"text","content":"But Berteau from the PSC said ultimately, every new administration has “both the right and the responsibility to align what the government’s doing with their priorities.”"},{"_id":"XO44RYAM4ZBQFOJEE7ZQJ4AA5I","additional_properties":{"_id":1740591915585},"type":"text","content":"He said that’s what this administration is doing, but noted, “this one is different in a number of ways, but at its core, it’s the same dynamic.”"},{"_id":"EHM7QA7KDBGT3OLE224CVDMHZI","additional_properties":{"_id":1740602290111},"type":"divider"},{"_id":"K64ZJ4QXJJGE3DQXJHZMNWMEWQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1740591915587},"type":"text","content":"<i>The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Report for America are partnering to add more journalists to cover topics important to our community. 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"},{"_id":"YV2ZK2W6ZJBVNCGMZCVZFNV7ZI","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"This year, it was the Jermaine Dupri and Ludacris collaboration “Welcome to Atlanta.” In his 2024 State of the City address, Hizzoner strolled out to Usher’s “Yeah!”"},{"_id":"RPBJTZU7SZAULERK5L7VZL7S3M","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Dickens dropped <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/whats-on-atlanta-mayor-andre-dickens-holiday-playlist/HXQVBYGSLREKZIGAXHBXNJ3OFA/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/whats-on-atlanta-mayor-andre-dickens-holiday-playlist/HXQVBYGSLREKZIGAXHBXNJ3OFA/\">a holiday playlist on Spotify</a> last year and <a href=\"https://www.pandora.com/playlist/PL:135573084387155221:1753549601?part=ag&corr=Q1U6MTg4NTg4MjM0Mzk2MTM5NTRfUEw6MTM1NTczMDg0Mzg3MTU1MjIxOjE3NTM1NDk2MDFfUExfUFJPRw%3D%3D&_branch_match_id=1397041126444992768&utm_source=AMP&utm_campaign=PL&utm_medium=Programs%20List&_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAA8soKSkottLXL0jMS8kvStRLLCjQy8nMy9Y3NIz0MqioNAzLT7KvK0pNSy0qysxLj08qyi8vTi2ydc4oys9NBQDblTafPgAAAA%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.pandora.com/playlist/PL:135573084387155221:1753549601?part=ag&corr=Q1U6MTg4NTg4MjM0Mzk2MTM5NTRfUEw6MTM1NTczMDg0Mzg3MTU1MjIxOjE3NTM1NDk2MDFfUExfUFJPRw%3D%3D&_branch_match_id=1397041126444992768&utm_source=AMP&utm_campaign=PL&utm_medium=Programs%20List&_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAA8soKSkottLXL0jMS8kvStRLLCjQy8nMy9Y3NIz0MqioNAzLT7KvK0pNSy0qysxLj08qyi8vTi2ydc4oys9NBQDblTafPgAAAA%3D%3D\">a 404 Day-themed Pandora mix</a> back in 2022. The latter includes Atlanta staples such as Monica’s “Don’t Take It Personal,” Young Jeezy’s “Put On” and “Waterfalls” by TLC. "},{"_id":"25BY7DKOXZFYNNTSBU2IKCEFQM","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"(Side note: one suggestion for a future preaddress hype song would be honoring the <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/things-to-do/arts-culture/pioneering-atlanta-artist-dj-unk-dead-at-43/HGMXKNHNQBHHLJRTY54S4XCEZI/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.ajc.com/things-to-do/arts-culture/pioneering-atlanta-artist-dj-unk-dead-at-43/HGMXKNHNQBHHLJRTY54S4XCEZI/\">late artist DJ Unk</a> with “Walk It Out.” Or maybe even “Walk Thru” by the late <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/memorial-for-rich-homie-quan-celebrates-the-life-of-atlanta-rapper-who-died-at-34/2HB4QSKSO5D37BTPIRM6VAL4YA/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/memorial-for-rich-homie-quan-celebrates-the-life-of-atlanta-rapper-who-died-at-34/2HB4QSKSO5D37BTPIRM6VAL4YA/\">Rich Homie Quan</a>?)"},{"level":3,"_id":"6QA26R627RGK7KQP6Y626KNG64","additional_properties":{},"type":"header","content":"<b>A Black mecca?</b>"},{"_id":"37DZSVNDJRBVPGR5ZVJKZDN7KQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“Do you know how much you’re loved,” Dickens asked the crowd before going into data points that speak to Atlanta’s place atop different lists.<b> </b>"},{"_id":"H7XIDV3LPFETPD7255UJBX6RZM","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Those mentions ranged from <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/things-to-do/grammy-awards-2024-killer-mike-sweeps-rap-awards-more-atlanta-winners/3XWMETSMTFEUVCL3MCB3EHZIWE/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.ajc.com/things-to-do/grammy-awards-2024-killer-mike-sweeps-rap-awards-more-atlanta-winners/3XWMETSMTFEUVCL3MCB3EHZIWE/\">Killer Mike sweeping the Grammy’s last year</a> to Atlanta being <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/atlanta-ranked-as-best-us-city-for-black-homebuyers/BAH5VWTJTJHRDLDYQSIDKPCJBY/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/atlanta-ranked-as-best-us-city-for-black-homebuyers/BAH5VWTJTJHRDLDYQSIDKPCJBY/\">the best city for Black homebuyers</a>."},{"_id":"PRIV2BQBR5AAFISHGOUVQ3QDMI","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“If you had any doubt, Atlanta still influences everything,” a phrase nodding to <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/black-atlanta-culture/how-atlanta-influences-everything-became-the-citys-rallying-cry/4NPCMMYX6BCVNETOAL6DUT7G4Q/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.ajc.com/black-atlanta-culture/how-atlanta-influences-everything-became-the-citys-rallying-cry/4NPCMMYX6BCVNETOAL6DUT7G4Q/\">the homegrown slogan and brand</a>."},{"level":3,"_id":"CFJP45VUJRB4FLUROF7RUDD66M","additional_properties":{},"type":"header","content":"<b>A new home for Black arts</b>"},{"_id":"TADC4K57D5A7TCL3MEOUACP65U","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Dickens later talked about his administration’s promise to build an arts center. "},{"_id":"OBW6VHN2PJDJFGN44F3IUXCNG4","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"In 2023 the city announced it was <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/atlanta-wants-to-buy-fulton-countys-west-end-performing-arts-center/YC6LHLCTQBHS5NDGI7CTT2QA4Y/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/atlanta-wants-to-buy-fulton-countys-west-end-performing-arts-center/YC6LHLCTQBHS5NDGI7CTT2QA4Y/\">set to acquire the West End Performing Arts Center</a> with revitalization in mind. "},{"_id":"236RQ7XHVFFYPHA4FPRO5GOHJY","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Dickens announced during his address successfully opening the <a href=\"https://ocaatlanta.com/pearl-cleage-and-zaron-burnett-center-for-culture-and-creativity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://ocaatlanta.com/pearl-cleage-and-zaron-burnett-center-for-culture-and-creativity\">Pearl Cleage and Zaron Burnett Center for Culture and Creativity</a> in historic West End."},{"subtype":"instagram","referent":{"referent_properties":{},"provider":"https://graph.facebook.com/v8.0/instagram_oembed?url=","service":"oembed","id":"https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDxx63GOO5d/","type":"instagram"},"_id":"OMESL4F4J5FFPD6M3LDO33BOVQ","raw_oembed":{"author_name":"atlantaoca","width":658,"thumbnail_width":480,"html":"<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDxx63GOO5d/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; 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The center will host performances, workshops and other programming."},{"_id":"GM5U4KLNTBG75E755EQ2QMBM2Q","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“Bring your paintbrushes and canvases,” Dickens said."},{"level":3,"_id":"J7KKRUJMEBBNDGENMCCCXFGXEE","additional_properties":{},"type":"header","content":"<b>Bowen Homes revitalization</b>"},{"_id":"YY3DQNDFJJC6LCJUKI7YMIESXE","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"One of Atlanta’s largest public housing developments (and site of OutKast’s <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVehcuJXe6I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVehcuJXe6I\">“Bombs Over Baghdad” video</a>), Bowen Homes has been the talk of revitalization efforts for years since it was <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/local/bulldozers-begin-razing-bowen-homes-housing-project/QjEyV2jJqNlLdu4iWDVgBL/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/local/bulldozers-begin-razing-bowen-homes-housing-project/QjEyV2jJqNlLdu4iWDVgBL/\">demolished in 2009</a>."},{"_id":"7UOSVXLL5BHY7LKXSQPRSS2BVA","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Dickens said a groundbreaking for the 2,000-unit development is imminent. Development is also coming to Thomasville Heights, and aid for <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/federal-agents-raid-owner-of-atlantas-shuttered-forest-cove-apartment/FGT4HRHYQZDKBBSMR5XFT7SMVM/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/federal-agents-raid-owner-of-atlantas-shuttered-forest-cove-apartment/FGT4HRHYQZDKBBSMR5XFT7SMVM/\">displaced residents of Forest Cove Apartments</a>, Dickens said."},{"_id":"6YYMKKAIEFAVRHRTBSV5Q2N7KE","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“Clap for the old Bowen Homes coming back,” he said, which was met with applause and cheers from the crowd."},{"level":3,"_id":"DQCBTQ3TWJAGFMDW6TEIGXUILQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"header","content":"<b>Standing up for diversity</b>"},{"_id":"4RPCEJ2DRFCYPE6MLVKBAYAUX4","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"With President Donald Trump <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/business/trump-dei-executive-orders-frustrate-and-motivate-business-civic-leaders/LICBPNOVLRDUHOQUATLB24S7IU/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/business/trump-dei-executive-orders-frustrate-and-motivate-business-civic-leaders/LICBPNOVLRDUHOQUATLB24S7IU/\">signing an executive</a> order aimed at ending diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives nationwide, Dickens made it clear where he stands on the issue."},{"_id":"CK3QEL3XFVEUBBKYERVOHJ77RY","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“When they try to tell us that diversity and inclusion are something to run away from, we will fight back and show them that our diversity is what makes us strongest,” he said."},{"_id":"UFSJESFUJVD2HFO4QYM2GPLSAE","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"The issue is one currently drawing strong reactions from <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/uatl/boycott-or-bust-black-entrepreneurs-in-atlanta-respond-to-dei-rollbacks/GBA7HIIGEZD6BPW4E7ZETFQ3GA/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.ajc.com/uatl/boycott-or-bust-black-entrepreneurs-in-atlanta-respond-to-dei-rollbacks/GBA7HIIGEZD6BPW4E7ZETFQ3GA/\">Black entrepreneurs in Atlanta</a>. Dickens said regardless of differences, all residents are, “people worth fighting for.”"},{"_id":"V2HZAIDUE5C2ZHAYIQKJSZNNME","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“Join me, Atlanta, in this fight because we are a shining beacon of hope in this nation,” he said."},{"_id":"ZNQZKKR2ARCARKYWSKJJQEYZU4","type":"divider"},{"_id":"7CPSBYR5FFBWJBYF4ITL6MWTJI","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"<a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/uatl-membership/\"><i>Become a member of UATL</i></a><i> for more stories like this in our free newsletter and other membership benefits.</i>"},{"_id":"7JOEFZWJ3RETBHNHY6S5T3KSD4","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"<i>Follow </i><a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/itsUATL\" title=\"https://www.facebook.com/itsUATL\"><i>UATL on Facebook</i></a><i>,</i><a href=\"https://x.com/itsuatl\" title=\"https://x.com/itsuatl\"><i> on X</i></a><i>, </i><a href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@itsuatl\" title=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@itsuatl\"><i>TikTok</i></a><i> and </i><a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/itsuatl/\" title=\"https://www.instagram.com/itsuatl/\"><i>Instagram</i></a><i>.</i>"}],"subheadlines":{"basic":""},"description":{"basic":"These were the most Black culture moments from the 61st mayor of Atlanta's annual speech."},"taxonomy":{"sections":[{"path":"/uatl","parent":{"default":"/"},"_website":"ajc","parent_id":"/","name":"UATL","description":"UATL provides sophisticated coverage of important issues in the Black community","_id":"/uatl","additional_properties":{"original":{"parent":{"default":"/","MainMenu2024":"/","ComposerNav":"/","subnav_homepage":null},"_admin":{"alias_ids":["/uatl"]},"navigation":{"nav_title":"UATL","cohort_desktop_image":"https://www.ajc.com/resizer/u9oT8sHgrFwM-4k0OVhMpmrjSEE=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/AC24LOAV3NDQNIEUSAU5NM34BM.png","cohort":"true","cohort_mobile_image":"https://www.ajc.com/resizer/W7PlcNYiF7A-LGlN05rksg5tyWU=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/363YOTHREFBFBFLTN6S7XZDZ3E.png","cohort_logo_image":"/resizer/oATjbNKHc-rXeDDYGL-LcBTO-3w=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/T5P2I73D6ZFABECDTUXOU2DNXE.png"},"site":{"site_url":"https://www.ajc.com/uatl/","site_keywords":null,"site_about":"UATL provides sophisticated coverage of important issues in the Black community","primary_color":"#E23229","site_description":"UATL provides sophisticated coverage of important issues in the Black community","site_title":"UATL","site_tagline":null},"inactive":false,"node_type":"section","_website":"ajc","name":"UATL","_id":"/uatl","ancestors":{"default":[],"MainMenu2024":["/"],"ComposerNav":["/"],"subnav_homepage":[]},"mobile_app":{"exclude_from_navigation":"false","webview":null,"exclude_from_web_site_navigation":null},"order":{"MainMenu2024":1007,"ComposerNav":1021}}},"_website_section_id":"ajc./uatl","type":"section","version":"0.6.0"},{"path":"/things-to-do","parent":{"default":"/"},"_website":"ajc","parent_id":"/","name":"Things to Do","description":"Find things to do in Atlanta, the AJC events calendar, Atlanta restaurants, Georgia festivals, things to do this weekend, Atlanta movie showtimes, festivals and concerts. 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What they offered was considered industrial insurance and geared toward the working class, meaning policyholders could purchase smaller amounts of insurance and pay weekly premiums instead of larger lump sums a few times a year."},{"_id":"GF4UMKTQYZEA3NJZPVTMWJVEEM","additional_properties":{"_id":1739277999080},"type":"text","content":"When Herndon established Atlanta Mutual in 1905, the company had just three agents, one clerk and one room in an office building. 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Two years later, the company had expanded to six additional states."},{"_id":"OZSR4A4I4ZF5JEXUPIKU6C2K3M","additional_properties":{"_id":1739277999083},"type":"text","content":"Atlanta Life eventually moved from the one-room office of its beginnings to a two-story brick building on Auburn Avenue, establishing itself as a key presence on the bustling Black business corridor that helped the neighborhood get its name, Sweet Auburn. Herndon, despite being enslaved in his early life and just a step away from it as a sharecropper, was a proud Black man, dedicated to uplifting his people."},{"_id":"B7664SVYRNHCVNUPV2IOOELQ5I","additional_properties":{"_id":1739277999084},"type":"text","content":"At an Atlanta Life managers’ conference in 1924, he told the audience a story: “An American asked an Irishman, ‘If you were not an Irishman, what would you rather be?’ The Irishman replied, ‘If I were not an Irishman, I would rather be ashamed.’ So it is with me. If I were not a Negro, I would be ashamed.”"},{"_id":"YM4CQHWJNFEO3JT56UUIO4AK4U","additional_properties":{"_id":1739277999085},"type":"text","content":"He viewed Atlanta Life not as a way to enrich himself (though he was the <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-black-history/alonzo-herndon-how-he-became-atlantas-1st-black-millionaire/NHZSBDM3SBEEA32DRXNM3B24KQ/\" target=\"_self\">first Black millionaire</a> in Atlanta) but as a way to employ and offer opportunities to others. He remarked in his 1919 annual report that traveling through the states where Atlanta Life had a presence and meeting the young men and women who worked for the company filled him with joy."},{"_id":"2PBWW6Y5NZBZZMQPKXIJJY3ABA","additional_properties":{"_id":1739277999086},"type":"text","content":"“(T)heir preparation for these places and positions were afforded them as a result of our company being able to give them a chance to prove their worth and ability,” Herndon wrote."},{"_id":"26HQNTGGKZGNTCMXZTQZYMXTRA","additional_properties":{"_id":1739277999087},"type":"text","content":"“The majority of these young people … own their own homes and are regarded as business factors in the several communities where they live. This is as it should be, and as a result of it I am happy,” he continued."},{"_id":"KIWAYXSUUNBV7PKY7EVA66TFTI","additional_properties":{"_id":1739277999088},"type":"text","content":"By the time Herndon died in 1927, Atlanta Life had grown to more than 700 employees and amassed $1 million in assets, valued at more than $18 million today."},{"_id":"NHT6IK4A4JHPBHHSSECAIZR2E4","additional_properties":{"_id":1739277999089},"type":"text","content":"His son, Norris, took over leadership of the company after his father’s death, seeing it through the turbulence of the Great Depression and then its rise in the abundant post-World War II years, providing home mortgages and business loans to African Americans alongside insurance."},{"level":1,"_id":"BI6BTCC55VCQLMFBU3L2RJN6CE","additional_properties":{},"type":"header","content":"<b>“I thank God for Atlanta Life Insurance Company and pray that we do those things that are just and right.”</b>"},{"_id":"S3LCO6S2NFDY3NJNMC33LE6ABM","additional_properties":{"_id":1739277999091},"alignment":"center","type":"text","content":"<b>— Alonzo Herndon, undated</b>"},{"_id":"U43LJL54ZJFPXA4WUC7XBVKSVA","additional_properties":{"_id":1739277999092},"type":"text","content":"The Ku Klux Klan didn’t want Henrietta Antoinin to be registering Black voters, and they made that very clear."},{"_id":"WUTP3AGIYFDK5IQBXE35NRMIJA","additional_properties":{"_id":1739277999093},"type":"text","content":"In the early 1960s, Antoinin was picketing then-Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen’s office because he had refused to help her group of Black activists become certified to register voters. Then came the KKK, led by a grand dragon garbed in blood red robes and mask, marching across the street from Antoinin and her group."},{"_id":"2ETJAD5K4RG2HBNUPTQBMMGVAI","additional_properties":{"_id":1739277999094},"type":"text","content":"“Scared us to death, of course,” she recalled."},{"_id":"6EQYMOJPC5FF3CH2AH7BPMJJ3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1739277999095},"type":"text","content":"But Atlanta Life’s leadership was not cowed."},{"_id":"RUKDEDMLOVCPTANR23CP7KXC3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1739277999096},"type":"text","content":"Antoinin had joined the company in 1962, a fresh-faced 21-year-old woman who had wanted to work for the company “more than anything in the world.” Born in Atlanta under the tyranny of Jim Crow laws, Antoinin admired how Atlanta Life was founded by a former enslaved man and had grown to be not only a nationally successful company, but one that was focused on helping the Black community. 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White Southerners had made it as hard, and deadly, as possible for African Americans to exercise that Constitutional right. Hill wanted to fight back by getting a group of African Americans in Atlanta certified to register voters. Antoinin agreed to join the cause. Mayor Allen eventually decided to help them become certified after the incident with the KKK."},{"_id":"GSGYZ3MHNBE57GSOWFPNNS7IUM","additional_properties":{"_id":1739277999099},"type":"text","content":"And throughout, Atlanta Life’s leaders supported the movement, paying Hill, Antoinin and a handful of others their full salaries as if they were still coming into the office, though they were posted at schools around Atlanta registering Black voters for 12 hours a day for months."},{"_id":"HFL24EIBSZFIRGHJLKRB6GZMYA","additional_properties":{"_id":1739277999100},"type":"text","content":"It was just one way Atlanta Life supported the Civil Rights Movement. 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When she approached Atlanta Life’s leaders about her dilemma, they helped facilitate a mortgage for her."},{"_id":"67HNPNXRRFESNGNBLRDFRJ6IIM","additional_properties":{"_id":1739277999106},"type":"text","content":"“After working with Atlanta Life, I really saw what they meant when they say Atlanta Life was a quest for economic dignity for Black Americans,” Antoinin said."},{"_id":"MABDOYSRNVHE3DBEBAYAT2WHIA","additional_properties":{"_id":1739277999107},"type":"text","content":"In 1973, Hill was named president and CEO of Atlanta Life, taking over a company that was considered the largest Black privately owned and controlled business in the country. Under his leadership, Atlanta Life also worked to integrate white Atlanta businesses. Hill would recommend some of his best workers be hired by other companies in the city, though it was a loss for him, in the name of progress, according to Antoinin."},{"_id":"EGZ6VDLMFVG6NEKYMCYAQHY7GY","additional_properties":{"_id":1739277999108},"type":"text","content":"Initially during Hill’s tenure, the company continued acquiring other Black insurance companies and growing its business. Just like previous decades, the 1970s were a time of growth. By 1979, the company had $107 million in assets, equivalent to about $464 million today."},{"_id":"MBZJVGS45NE7DLTO2JCTNGE7AA","additional_properties":{"_id":1739277999109},"type":"text","content":"That year the company also began construction on a new six-story, 100,000-square-foot headquarters that opened in 1980, Atlanta Life’s 75th anniversary. The building was a celebratory moment for the company, one full of promise for the future, even as, down the street, Sweet Auburn had slid from its heyday as a Black business mecca into blight."},{"_id":"6253A6DR4VDMNBJSAEXKYYBJ34","additional_properties":{"_id":1739277999110},"type":"text","content":"Auburn Avenue had gone from “being the richest Negro street in the world to being one of the scariest streets in Atlanta,” said Mtamanika Youngblood, former chair of the Historic District Development Corporation and Sweet Auburn Works, two organizations dedicated to revitalizing the neighborhood."},{"_id":"2LTUEXLAU5C4TMITQGEDYI3SAY","additional_properties":{"_id":1739277999111},"type":"text","content":"But soon, Atlanta Life would also face its own decline."},{"level":1,"_id":"WHL2GURLLBDWZC6OXF4KDP6W4U","additional_properties":{},"type":"header","content":"<b>“Tell of your successes if you like, but let your failures go.”</b>"},{"_id":"OY4TD6VOQVAR3IAIHUK2O2ONXY","additional_properties":{"_id":1739277999113},"alignment":"center","type":"text","content":"<b>— Atlanta Mutual bulletin Oct. 9, 1920</b>"},{"_id":"276QD4XV6JETTEUEPK7LGIGI7E","additional_properties":{"_id":1739277999114},"type":"text","content":"Antoinin, 88, worked for Atlanta Life for nearly five decades until she retired as vice president of public relations and communications in 2008. 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Beginning in the 1940s, African Americans started to get better wages than before, particularly by moving north for manufacturing jobs. Wins from the Civil Rights Movement supercharged those gains by opening more of the economy to Black people. By 1998, about 40% of African Americans considered themselves middle class, according to <a href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/articles/black-progress-how-far-weve-come-and-how-far-we-have-to-go/\">Brookings</a>."},{"_id":"TUMXQUMX7RHN7KYGIXJIGUYBZU","additional_properties":{"_id":1739277999118},"type":"text","content":"This changing economy meant Black Americans had more opportunities, as both employees and consumers. It’s something Youngblood experienced firsthand. She moved to Sweet Auburn in 1985, about a mile from the Atlanta Life headquarters, but, “to be frank, you know, no one from Atlanta Life ever reached out to us to ask us to buy insurance,” Youngblood said."},{"_id":"3LNSADSMIFFFZNPBTIHIQWLTOQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1739277999119},"type":"text","content":"“It was, I suspect, struggling, as all Black businesses did during that time frame, with competing with now major white institutions that had kind of at least gotten comfortable with having Black people as customers,” she added."},{"_id":"HFY27VXEAVHFRHCCDZSDIW5USI","additional_properties":{"_id":1739277999120},"type":"text","content":"In the 1990s, Atlanta Life agents were being poached by white companies who could pay more, Antoinin said. 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Atlanta Life also moved away from its insurance focus because of economic headwinds, reorganizing into Atlanta Life Financial Group in 2001 and branching into financial advising and brokerage services."},{"_id":"L7JZXWYGSVC7FL4AL57OV7HR4Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1739277999125},"type":"text","content":"A changing economy meant Atlanta Life went through a “tumultuous” time, Youngblood said. Her husband, George Howell, sat on the board of the company in the 1990s, and it was divided into two factions because the company was failing to compete against its peers."},{"_id":"6AWRV7EC5BFK5FVHGRXXF67HXM","additional_properties":{"_id":1739277999126},"type":"text","content":"“It was unlikely to get white subscribers, which is the history of desegregation,” she explained, “and it did very little outreach to Black customers. And so, it was shrinking, you know, as an insurance company. The question was, what was it?”"},{"_id":"QHJPRG53ZRFPDJOCTQFYW5EIIM","additional_properties":{"_id":1739277999127},"type":"text","content":"Her husband and some other board members thought it was an institution worth saving, but there was another faction looking at selling its real estate and moving on."},{"_id":"KVYS5V7YRZGYTJBSXNUQPXAHBU","additional_properties":{"_id":1739277999128},"type":"text","content":"Atlanta Life merged with Jackson Securities, the investment banking firm founded by former Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, in 2007, a deal Antoinin said she voted against as a member of the board despite her decades-long friendship with Jackson."},{"_id":"K7LH2SJZ2FBCNKQWQWFM6CGCCI","additional_properties":{"_id":1739277999129},"type":"text","content":"“(Jackson Securities) were just about right in the red, and we were leaning, so why would you pick somebody that’s gonna pull you down even further?” she said."},{"_id":"TX2MAAHTO5BQTM5Q6MNCFZPC5Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1739277999130},"type":"text","content":"Antoinin and Jackson went way back, their parents were friends and Jackson’s father baptized her, “but the company meant more to me than that, than just friendship.”"},{"_id":"777IB6C4H5DJLISYRTH4VPZ6LA","additional_properties":{"_id":1739277999134},"type":"text","content":"In 2010, Atlanta Life decided to put its Auburn Avenue headquarters on the market. The building hadn’t been full since 2001, a spokesperson said at the time. The company paid $12.5 million to construct that headquarters, Antoinin said, but sold it for <a href=\"https://qpublic.schneidercorp.com/Application.aspx?AppID=936&LayerID=18251&PageTypeID=4&PageID=8156&Q=1516486245&KeyValue=14%20005100081082\">less than $10 million</a> to Georgia State University. The company moved its headquarters away from the neighborhood where it had been founded to a downtown skyscraper."},{"_id":"DTXPKA5J7REZJICQSVNAH3NJVU","additional_properties":{"_id":1739277999135},"type":"text","content":"For Youngblood, the sale represented the loss of an iconic, one-of-a-kind Atlanta institution. Some time after Georgia State took over the headquarters, she had a meeting there and was struck that there was nothing noting the history of the building."},{"_id":"GDH4R7ZIRBHIBIQKT2YKIKV3BU","additional_properties":{"_id":1739277999136},"type":"text","content":"“It’s like it had all been erased,” Youngblood said."},{"_id":"5T3PMURZCFBVNJXE7D57EODU2M","additional_properties":{"_id":1739277999137},"type":"text","content":"And the decline continued. In 2017, an investment management firm owned by Atlanta Life, Herndon Capital Management, <a href=\"https://www.pionline.com/article/20171025/ONLINE/171029894/herndon-capital-management-to-close\">shut down</a> after years of poor investments and hemorrhaging clients."},{"_id":"TQFI4S3CNNEZZONMDHQSLKXEPM","additional_properties":{"_id":1739277999138},"type":"text","content":"But soon, Atlanta Life was going to be hit by a bit of magic."},{"level":1,"_id":"2ENABVNH3JCJZDVGO4VRR3H2NI","additional_properties":{},"alignment":"center","type":"header","content":"<b>“I never brag about Atlanta Life being the biggest company in the world, but I am proud and anxious to have it the BEST company in the world.”</b>"},{"_id":"RHGU4NFPURFQ5F2GVTIY72CQVE","additional_properties":{"_id":1739277999140},"alignment":"center","type":"text","content":"<b>— Alonzo Herndon, undated</b>"},{"_id":"QM5V6A3YQNEBFMNLH6XAW46HDQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1739277999141},"type":"text","content":"In 2018, Ryan Smith started looking into Atlanta Life for his boss, one of the most prominent Black business owners in the country, basketball star Earvin “Magic” Johnson. 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That is a lot of work, but it is important and well worth it."},{"_id":"5VANXVS4L5FSZAD3WEHTILUFGI","additional_properties":{"_id":1739200215155},"type":"text","content":"Throughout this month, with “Atlanta Unveiled: How African Americans Shaped Our City” we mark 10 years of coverage and occasionally step back to revisit some of our best work."},{"_id":"5VANXVS4L5FSZAD3WEHTILUFGI","additional_properties":{"_id":1739200215156},"type":"text","content":"There are a lot of stories to tell in Atlanta. That is no surprise from a city that has produced, nurtured and inspired the likes of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., C.T. Vivian, James Orange, Joseph Lowery, Hosea Williams, Ella Baker, Coretta Scott King, John Lewis, Dorothy Height, Rosa Parks, Wyatt T. 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America was divided as ever as the Vietnam War raged overseas and young men were drafted to fight — and often die — right out of high school. Stripped of his title at the height of his career and banned from the ring for refusing to join the war after being drafted, <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/lifestyles/muhammad-ali-return-the-ring-electrified-atlanta-black-community/S22y8j0zLW7K4iGSPuOD8H/\" target=\"_blank\">the undefeated and seemingly rusty Ali made his return to boxing in Atlanta</a> as the world looked on. It was glorious. The story by <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/staff/shaddi-abusaid/\">Shaddi Abusaid</a> recalled the mood and atmosphere around Atlanta that day. But because Ali was “The Greatest,” one profile can’t contain him. That is why Tia Mitchell, a native of Louisville, <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/the-louisville-lip-muhammad-ali-fighting-words-fueled-movement/nplsvMU8pRfQJckG7uMjRM/\" target=\"_blank\">talked to people back home in the “City of Ali,” </a>to dig into her roots, and the champ’s."},{"level":1,"_id":"JH63PRI7BVFQTE7ZAXA7CHFEEA","additional_properties":{},"type":"header","content":"<b>The Voices</b>"},{"owner":{"sponsored":false,"id":"ajc"},"address":{},"syndication":{},"auth":{"1":"6d58aa0323d72c5d70d590bca43dbd35609dc7757b39e1e55752527d7a39a52d"},"vanity_credits":{},"caption":"Mattiwilda Dobbs, Celia Cruz and Millie Jackson were among the many singers featured over the years in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Black History Month series.\n ","source":{"system":"photo center","name":"AJC","edit_url":"","source_type":"staff","additional_properties":{"editor":"photo center"}},"taxonomy":{"associated_tasks":[]},"type":"image","distributor":{"mode":"reference","reference_id":"8aec2b8c-455c-4816-903d-79fc8fdf8019"},"version":"0.10.9","url":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/5OLJ55SUX5EIHPWQKYNHECUELU.jpg","licensable":false,"credits":{"affiliation":[],"by":[{"name":"AJC file photos","type":"author","byline":"AJC file photos"}]},"subtitle":"The Voices, Mattiwilda, Celia and Millie","width":851,"_id":"5OLJ55SUX5EIHPWQKYNHECUELU","additional_properties":{"fullSizeResizeUrl":"/resizer/sD24T8TkHVfdI61BFoq9UZhjqNM=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/5OLJ55SUX5EIHPWQKYNHECUELU.jpg","keywords":[],"proxyUrl":"/resizer/sD24T8TkHVfdI61BFoq9UZhjqNM=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/5OLJ55SUX5EIHPWQKYNHECUELU.jpg","link":"","originalUrl":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/5OLJ55SUX5EIHPWQKYNHECUELU.jpg","published":true,"resizeUrl":"/resizer/sD24T8TkHVfdI61BFoq9UZhjqNM=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/5OLJ55SUX5EIHPWQKYNHECUELU.jpg","ingestionMethod":"manual","thumbnailResizeUrl":"/resizer/dkLk3ZYxBOboSzKGfJcpVnLKmjQ=/300x0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/5OLJ55SUX5EIHPWQKYNHECUELU.jpg","version":0,"originalName":"Untitled design.jpg","mime_type":"image/jpeg","restricted":false,"template_id":594,"galleries":[],"_id":"4ZDEQEM6LJBKDKCL5VYZLHUD4U"},"created_date":"2025-02-07T20:05:52Z","last_updated_date":"2025-02-07T20:05:52Z","height":196,"image_type":"photograph","resized_obj":{"src":"https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/5OLJ55SUX5EIHPWQKYNHECUELU.jpg?auth=6d58aa0323d72c5d70d590bca43dbd35609dc7757b39e1e55752527d7a39a52d&width=1260&height=840&smart=true"}},{"_id":"W4DCPMSOHRBMTH6WFBI2UELVEU","additional_properties":{"_id":1739200215163},"type":"text","content":"The series has written about many female musical artists, from <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/entertainment/music/lauryn-hill-innovative-miseducation-music-teaches-lasting-lessons/heRdV2dMzpb23LUITLzBBI/\" target=\"_blank\">Lauryn Hill</a> to <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/entertainment/photos-gladys-knight-through-the-years/r3brSgUD4lF7g2a5T3saMK/\" target=\"_blank\">Gladys Knight</a> to <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/entertainment/josephine-baker-france-could-claim-her-and-america-couldn-tame-her/R95DUfFOXflmIAEwIsA70K/\" target=\"_blank\">Josephine Baker</a>."},{"_id":"4B6J2CAW6FG7XPIGDHOWWIQFVY","additional_properties":{"_id":1739200215164},"type":"text","content":"But nothing compares to sitting in <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/things-to-do/rb-legend-millie-jackson-remains-unapologetically-outspoken/W7BJ7BQH2JGO3JEIXNVSE65MIA/\" target=\"_blank\">Millie Jackson’s living room</a> and listening to her tell rollicking stories about her amazing career. Or quietly listening to <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/the-legend-of-mattiwilda-dobbs/HUWHVUYVRJAFLHWEJTPWFSR6XI/\" target=\"_blank\">opera legend Mattiwilda Dobbs</a>, the aunt of former Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, with members of her family. Or sitting in the kitchen with South Fulton Councilwoman Linda Becquer-Pritchett in front of a stack of photo albums full of pictures to her <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-black-history/in-atlanta-and-across-us-legacy-of-queen-of-salsa-as-strong-as-ever/BGEDUNOKBVB7ZKRPWRQNGB2JFE/\" target=\"_blank\">“tia,” Celia Cruz</a>."},{"level":1,"_id":"ZKDXUG5EPVBTBAT56ZCBZ237AE","additional_properties":{},"type":"header","content":"<b>Cecil Williams’ high-risk drink of water</b>"},{"owner":{"sponsored":false,"id":"ajc"},"address":{},"syndication":{},"auth":{"1":"6839253eedd4c91c9fbb5b1674c8e283623eeae43ce16e649e9704942dff871a"},"caption":"Cecil Williams","source":{"system":"photo center","name":"AJC","edit_url":"","source_type":"staff","additional_properties":{"editor":"photo center"}},"taxonomy":{"associated_tasks":[]},"type":"image","distributor":{"mode":"reference","reference_id":"8aec2b8c-455c-4816-903d-79fc8fdf8019"},"version":"0.10.9","url":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/TAHL7VS7YRH7TNK5U6K467MQNE.jpg","licensable":false,"credits":{"affiliation":[],"by":[{"name":"Courtesy Cecil Williams","type":"author","byline":"Courtesy Cecil Williams"}]},"subtitle":"Cecil Williams","width":1200,"_id":"TAHL7VS7YRH7TNK5U6K467MQNE","additional_properties":{"fullSizeResizeUrl":"/resizer/KpNcyEhYHR4ocHTYH2YUIOJ9M5c=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/TAHL7VS7YRH7TNK5U6K467MQNE.jpg","keywords":[],"proxyUrl":"/resizer/KpNcyEhYHR4ocHTYH2YUIOJ9M5c=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/TAHL7VS7YRH7TNK5U6K467MQNE.jpg","originalUrl":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/TAHL7VS7YRH7TNK5U6K467MQNE.jpg","published":true,"resizeUrl":"/resizer/KpNcyEhYHR4ocHTYH2YUIOJ9M5c=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/TAHL7VS7YRH7TNK5U6K467MQNE.jpg","ingestionMethod":"manual","thumbnailResizeUrl":"/resizer/Zt3YOnys66uXrRQ9xl4NB8LDgMg=/300x0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/TAHL7VS7YRH7TNK5U6K467MQNE.jpg","version":0,"originalName":"2019_01-Winter_Cecil-Williams_02.jpg","mime_type":"image/jpeg","restricted":false,"template_id":594,"galleries":[],"_id":"RYSMLPIKUZDG7KR32MHSY6OCTE"},"created_date":"2023-02-16T06:11:05Z","last_updated_date":"2023-02-16T06:11:05Z","height":1200,"image_type":"photograph","resized_obj":{"src":"https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/TAHL7VS7YRH7TNK5U6K467MQNE.jpg?auth=6839253eedd4c91c9fbb5b1674c8e283623eeae43ce16e649e9704942dff871a&width=1260&height=840&smart=true"}},{"_id":"NX6VVPXOEZE7JFG33WXHQLCTL4","additional_properties":{"_id":1739200215167},"type":"text","content":"<a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-black-history/cecil-williams-high-risk-drink-of-water/K7DCPQEOQZC5TANVD72PFNGVYI/\" target=\"_blank\">Cecil Williams was just thirsty</a>."},{"_id":"OMJCVXQMABA3VEOYJDGZGFLU7A","additional_properties":{"_id":1739200215168},"type":"text","content":"And in 1956 in rural South Carolina, being thirsty could get you lynched. But there he was on Highway 21 on his way<b> </b>back home to Orangeburg, when he stopped at a service station to get a drink of water only water fountain, which marked “white only.” By chance, a friend of his snapped his photo."},{"_id":"TRPJPJL5OFGJ5HKV3DPLZPIRFQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1739200215169},"type":"text","content":"“It was dangerous to do things like that during that era,” Williams said. “Grave things happened to people of color when we broke the rules.”"},{"level":1,"_id":"5T5VOS5URBBHDH2YS7BQLCCKRM","additional_properties":{},"type":"header","content":"<b>Katherine Johnson, a hidden figure</b>"},{"owner":{"id":"ajc"},"workflow":{"status_code":4},"auth":{"1":"ab94113e9fcf19e7a62db7884f9571df742b2d001cded8c763d6097d881e4c82"},"caption":"NASA research mathematician Katherine Johnson is photographed at her desk at NASA Langley Research Center with a globe, or \"Celestial Training Device.\"","source":{"system":"Methode","source_type":"other","source_id":"69e6b9a6-5725-11ea-80ca-7332e80c8775","additional_properties":{"editor":"photo center"}},"type":"image","distributor":{"mode":"reference","reference_id":"8aec2b8c-455c-4816-903d-79fc8fdf8019"},"version":"0.10.9","url":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/CPQWLOL7CB2YNV4UTMFJB2JUEE.jpg","licensable":false,"display_date":"2020-02-24T16:47:59Z","credits":{"by":[{"affiliation":"NASA","name":"NASA","type":"author","byline":"NASA","slug":"nasa"}]},"subtitle":"NASA scientist Katherine Johnson ","width":720,"first_publish_date":"2020-02-24T16:47:59Z","_id":"CPQWLOL7CB2YNV4UTMFJB2JUEE","additional_properties":{"fullSizeResizeUrl":"/resizer/nYWiakImOjsjBolrzz9JgQupnGY=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/CPQWLOL7CB2YNV4UTMFJB2JUEE.jpg","keywords":["national_ajc","natworld.ajc","ccd","ccd-al"],"proxyUrl":"/resizer/nYWiakImOjsjBolrzz9JgQupnGY=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/CPQWLOL7CB2YNV4UTMFJB2JUEE.jpg","takenOn":"2020-02-24T16:47:59Z","originalUrl":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/CPQWLOL7CB2YNV4UTMFJB2JUEE.jpg","published":true,"resizeUrl":"/resizer/nYWiakImOjsjBolrzz9JgQupnGY=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/CPQWLOL7CB2YNV4UTMFJB2JUEE.jpg","thumbnailResizeUrl":"/resizer/GTqQEIIJXlgnpWAwp1jl0HXBFRU=/300x0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/CPQWLOL7CB2YNV4UTMFJB2JUEE.jpg","version":0,"originalName":"https://www.ajc.com//rw/Pub/p11/AJC/2020/02/24/Images/Katherine%20Johnson%20NASA.JPG","mime_type":"image/jpeg","restricted":false,"galleries":[],"_id":"PRAWISHHWVDYZIZL46OOWPUJZY"},"created_date":"2020-06-29T21:21:15Z","last_updated_date":"2020-06-29T21:21:15Z","publish_date":"2020-02-24T16:47:59Z","height":367,"resized_obj":{"src":"https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/CPQWLOL7CB2YNV4UTMFJB2JUEE.jpg?auth=ab94113e9fcf19e7a62db7884f9571df742b2d001cded8c763d6097d881e4c82&width=1260&height=840&smart=true"}},{"_id":"4XNSR2TKUFCCRECQN5T23OR3S4","additional_properties":{"_id":1739200215172},"type":"text","content":"<a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/lifestyles/katherine-johnson-the-hidden-figure-key-nasa-early-missions/voeYnNJNsei9REBYOGdQMJ/\" target=\"_blank\">Katherine Johnson’s skill at working complicated calculations essential to space travel was simply unparalleled.</a> Working as a NASA “computer,” her work was instrumental in advancing the country’s standing in the Space Race."},{"_id":"M2FIERZS5RCBNOQW7PD6AON3OA","additional_properties":{"_id":1739200215173},"type":"text","content":"Her calculations helped plot the successful 1961 Mercury flight of Alan B. 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His other credits included “For Your Precious Love,” “Never Give You Up” (with Gamble and Huff) and “He Will Break Your Heart,” which Butler helped write after he began thinking about the boyfriends of the groupies he met on the road."},{"_id":"G6FC4MKQEZFLHJ34PLDTVZT5NU","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“You go into a town; you’re only going to be there for one night; you want some company; you find a girl; you blow her mind,” Butler told Rolling Stone in 1969. “Now you know that girl hasn’t been sitting in town waiting for you to come in. She probably has another fellow and the other fellow’s probably in love with her; they’re probably planning to go through the whole thing, right? But you never take that into consideration on that particular night.”"},{"_id":"6HFADJMIF5F2XEJIITFZH6NIXM","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"The son Mississippi sharecroppers, Butler and his family moved moved north to Chicago when he was 3, part of the era’s “Great Migration” of Black people out of the South. He loved all kinds of music as a child and was a good enough singer that a friend suggested he come to a local place of worship, the Traveling Souls Spiritualist Church, presided over by the Rev. A.B. Mayfield. Her grandson, Curtis Mayfield, soon became a longtime collaborator. (Mayfield died in 1999.)"},{"_id":"JMA3U55A6RFZRMOZVEC4RAA4ZQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"In 1958, Mayfield and Butler along with Sam Gooden and brothers Arthur and Richard Brooks recorded “For Your Precious Love” for Vee-Jay Records. The group called itself the Impressions, but Vee-Jay, anxious to promote an individual star, advertised the song as by Jerry Butler and the Impressions, leading to estrangement between Butler and the other performers and to an unexpected solo career."},{"_id":"KBUGA6OIXZHOBNQ4OZPQSEYBRY","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“Fame didn’t change me as much as it changed the people around me,” Butler wrote in his memoir “Only the Strong Survive,” published in 2000."},{"_id":"NHHYAFVY2VAOXOR5Q6P7AHJDWA","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"One of his early solo performances was a 1961 cover of “Moon River,” the theme to “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.” Butler was the first performer to hit the charts with what became a pop standard, but “Moon River” would be associated with Andy Williams after the singer was chosen to perform it at the Academy Awards, a snub Butler long resented. His other solo hits, some recorded with Mayfield, included “He Will Break Your Heart”, “Find Another Girl” and “I’m A-Telling You.”"},{"_id":"IYWBK6A2HNBHTIDBWVU7Q5JHHE","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"By 1967, his formal style seemed out of fashion, but Butler was impressed by the new music coming out of Philadelphia and received permission from his record label (Mercury) to work with Gamble and Huff. The chemistry, Butler recalled, was so “fierce” they wrote hits such as “Only the Strong Survive” in less than an hour."},{"_id":"RFW3W7EJ45AK7CT5UN72JC5P6M","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“Things just seem to fall into place,” Butler told Ebony magazine in 1969. “We lock ourselves in a room, create stories about lovers, compose the music, then write the lyrics to match the music.”"},{"_id":"2RO7GJAXCVDUFPGSFDZOIUNKRM","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"By the 1980s, Butler’s career had faded and he was becoming increasingly interested in politics. Encouraged by the 1983 election of Harold Washington, Chicago’s first Black mayor, he ran successfully for the Cook County Board in 1985 and was re-elected repeatedly, even after supporting a controversial sales tax increase in 2009. He retired from the board in 2018."},{"_id":"56JAGEBJABDVDLS67PZK5I6M5E","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Butler was married for 60 years to Annette Smith, who died in 2019, and with her had twin sons. Many of his generational peers had struggled financially and he worked to help them, while also supporting various family members. He chaired the Rhythm & Blues Foundation, which offers a wide range of assistance to musicians, and pushed the industry to provide medical and retirement benefits. Butler considered himself lucky, even if he did pass on the chance to own a part of Gamble and Huff’s Philadelphia International recording company."},{"_id":"VXJMKKHE5VHO3LP7THEKQY3JRA","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“You know, I have lived well. My wife probably would say I could’ve lived better,” Butler told the Chicago Reader in 2011. “Did I make 40, 50 million dollars? No. Did I keep one or two? Yes. The old guys on the street used to say, ‘It’s not how much you make. It’s how much you keep.’”"},{"_id":"X3EEF7I6RNHLBJGOAVL747SWPI","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"___"},{"_id":"YT4HS7ARKFBWLPNLILMLAYHYRI","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"This story corrects a typo in graph 6"}],"subheadlines":{"basic":"Jerry Butler, a premier soul singer whose rich, steady baritone graced such hits as \"For Your Precious Love,\" \"Only the Strong Survive\" and \"Make It Easy On Yourself,\" has died at age 85"},"taxonomy":{"sections":[{"path":"/news/nation-world","parent":{"default":"/news"},"_website":"ajc","parent_id":"/news","name":"Nation & World News","description":"US and world news updates from the AJC","_id":"/news/nation-world","additional_properties":{"original":{"sponsor":{"sponsor_url_open_new_tab":"true","sponsor_desktop_banner":"","sponsor_mobile_banner":"","sponsor_url":""},"parent":{"AmpNav":"/news","default":"/news","MainMenu2024":"/news","BottomNav":null,"TopNavRedesign":null,"SectionMap":"/","MainMenuRedesign2021":null,"subnav_news":"/","TopNav":null,"ComposerNav":"/news"},"site":{"site_url":"","section_comments_enabled":"Yes","site_description":"US and world news updates from the AJC","site_title":"Nation & World News"},"navigation":{"nav_title":"National & World News"},"inactive":false,"node_type":"section","_website":"ajc","name":"Nation & World News","_id":"/news/nation-world","ancestors":{"MainMenu2024":["/news","/"],"TopNavRedesign":[],"SectionMap":["/"],"MainMenuRedesign2021":[],"subnav_news":["/"],"TopNav":[],"ComposerNav":["/news"]},"order":{"AmpNav":2017,"default":2017,"MainMenu2024":2003,"SectionMap":1120,"subnav_news":1004,"ComposerNav":2012}}},"_website_section_id":"ajc./news/nation-world","type":"section","version":"0.6.0"},{"path":"/life","parent":{"default":"/"},"_website":"ajc","parent_id":"/","name":"Life","description":"Atlanta living and lifestyle news, Atlanta travel, health, faith, celebrities and pop culture news and features from the AJC. 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"},{"_id":"5VVSDTC325CGNGCXK5O4Z4YH74","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“It’s nice to bring that in because it can feel illegible to people that don’t ‘get it.’” "},{"_id":"X7XM4FKMBZFPBO4M5BNVQTJLPE","type":"raw_html","content":"<CuratedEvents title='The Line Up' showTicketCost=\"false\" listId=\"1773\" externalLink='https://www.ajc.com/uatl/the-lineup/' overridePrimaryEvent='4051211' linkText='View Full LineUp' overrideColor='#E23229'/>"},{"_id":"BC5GPL5BJ5GRRHNOZGEUCQZQYM","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"The original “What Black is This You Say?” series was born from Williams' skepticism toward the ill-fated <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/lifestyles/what-blackouttuesday-the-music-industry-new-movement/cg9XvGMbFqy2C9zm5s1UVI/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\"><u>Blackout Tuesday</u></a> social media protests of 2020, when Instagram users posted black squares on their feeds, using the “#Blacklivesmatter” hashtag. The intention was to show disdain for the highly publicized murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor, yet <a href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/2/21277852/blackout-tuesday-posts-hiding-information-blm-black-lives-matter-hashtag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/2/21277852/blackout-tuesday-posts-hiding-information-blm-black-lives-matter-hashtag\">some believe it simultaneously complicated its intended mission</a> by ironically diminishing the visibility of information protesters and organizers might find useful."},{"_id":"PXOHP6MUF5CGZPR6XGWORS7NQA","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“I’ll be honest. I wasn’t feeling the blackout,” <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CA9bC-ylWvu/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CA9bC-ylWvu/?hl=en\">wrote Williams in a June 2020 Instagram post</a> about a protest many observers came to see as performative."},{"_id":"PNG7MI6BNBATLPY3R5FWZDXBGI","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“I hate stuff like that, but I caved. Wanted to be in solidarity. But color is everything to me. You can’t just say ‘black’ … which one? So I’m gonna inaugurate a different black each day until I don’t feel like it anymore. Why? 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While selling those pieces to collectors, Williams’ idea grew into a multiplatform project that has existed as a <a href=\"https://www.expochicago.com/programs/dine&\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\"><u>virtual dinner</u></a>, <a href=\"https://www.expochicago.com/amanda-williams-what-black-is-this-you-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\"><u>a napkin and artist proof set</u></a>, a <a href=\"https://storefront.nyc/program/what-black-is-this-you-say-a-public-artwork-by-amanda-williams/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\"><u>public art installation</u></a> and a <a href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757506/what-black-is-this-you-say-by-edited-by-amanda-williams/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\"><u>book</u></a> set for publication in April."},{"_id":"FWDTM3OS4FG6JI224D3GXKKD4U","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"One of the original watercolor paintings caught Lowe’s eye in September 2021, while she was viewing works as an independent curator at New York City’s Armory Show."},{"_id":"LFMQFGKLORHXFMC5A53CNW2KCE","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“I was walking through the fair and discovered this small watercolor abstract work that had writing on it,” recalls Lowe. “It said, ‘what you’re not gonna do is tell a black woman what she gonna do.’ I had never seen anything like that. I started to laugh. "},{"_id":"LYO53XRZABHC5GA3GUOB3IFOL4","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“From that point, I became really interested in finding out who made this because immediately, when I saw the abstract work and when I read that, I said a Black person made this and I wanted to know who was this Black person speaking to me in this way.”"},{"_id":"A657ZQCTZFDGVH7QIX22ZD5XZU","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Eager to showcase Williams’ collection in Atlanta, Lowe reached out and invited her to exhibit her work at <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/things-to-do/art-and-science-intersect-for-new-director-of-atlanta-contemporary/WD5X3QIMGZFAPLZJZ7QYBUD2CE/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\"><u>Atlanta Contemporary</u></a>. Williams declined. Months later, Lowe invited Williams to show her creations at <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/things-to-do/hammonds-house-what-theyre-saying/TWIU5VSLWVBH7BWVYA25CSNCB4/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\"><u>Hammonds House Museum</u></a>, where she served as executive director at the time, and received another no. "},{"_id":"OSV5HCPQ55AUPMUXIDNQWP2C4I","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Williams, a painter of many years, insists she wasn’t brushing her off. “It wasn’t that I didn’t want to do a show, but it was kind of like, OK, I got 6,000 things going on, I can’t get my head around how to do a show,” she admitted. 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The following spring semester, the Atlanta University Center Collective for the Study of Art History and Curatorial Studies offered a special topics class centered around Williams’ creations, presenting an opportunity to assist in building out the eventual exhibition. 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Witnesses were screaming in the background. Stephen Tinsley yelled at April Tinsley, who yelled back at him. One witness entered the camera frame trying, unsuccessfully, to calm everyone down."},{"_id":"EJI2VZF3NBCM5PPRH54PDQ5P3Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1740019570586},"type":"text","content":"When officers from the Henry County Police Department arrived on scene, reviewed the camera footage and talked to witnesses, they concluded that any physical contact between April Tinsley and Darius Rice was accidental."},{"_id":"AV6MKXUIANHI3FMVWNIBPYKWYM","additional_properties":{"_id":1740019570587},"type":"text","content":"Then the Henry County Sheriff’s Office took over the investigation and Rice was charged with sexual battery."},{"_id":"6YIVJPISVJHX3KAABXD475S7PA","additional_properties":{"_id":1740019570588},"type":"text","content":"Two years go by and the statute of limitations to prosecute a misdemeanor passes. The charge against Rice was automatically dropped."},{"_id":"DHDK5AY7QVGZ3HUQXOFQGABBFM","additional_properties":{"_id":1740019570589},"type":"text","content":"“We believe they failed to prosecute because there was no crime committed,” said Rice’s attorney, Harry Daniels."},{"_id":"6N3VRD3BCJB37DFVLDYOT5KSAU","additional_properties":{"_id":1740019570590},"type":"text","content":"But for Rice, the damage to his life had been done."},{"_id":"F6CR3OWLKREFFLNS2UKA6PYBSI","additional_properties":{"_id":1740019570591},"type":"text","content":"The former Marine lost his $200,000 a year job as an overseas government contractor and was unable to regain security clearance while he waited for the case to be prosecuted, Daniels said."},{"_id":"FHYZASGLYNFHLFO45W4PKWBSAU","additional_properties":{"_id":1740019570592},"type":"text","content":"Stephen Tinsley lost his reelection bid for Clinch County sheriff in May. 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If there was credible evidence that a Black man sexually battered a white woman, the case would have been prosecuted and that man would be behind bars."},{"_id":"YQCOS5MBNJFBZP5674ELBWLYVM","additional_properties":{"_id":1740019570596},"type":"text","content":"Attorneys for Rice have compared his case to that of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old Black youth who died at the hands of white men for allegedly flirting with a white woman."},{"_id":"FXQDIFLK4NAW7OJ7DBHUQG7GHU","additional_properties":{"_id":1740019570597},"type":"text","content":"Till lost his life over what his accuser decades later acknowledged was an exaggeration, if not an outright lie."},{"_id":"4NS4KYLECBFCRHRHTDPD6PVASY","additional_properties":{"_id":1740019570598},"type":"text","content":"We may never know what really happened that day in 1955 in Money, Mississippi."},{"_id":"A6OYTSPZ6NHB5FKTZ6UUD23MKY","additional_properties":{"_id":1740019570599},"type":"text","content":"Similarly, we may never know exactly what 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The Carver State Bank’s board of directors, many of them lifelong Savannahians, spoke of the Tribune and how much the Black community missed it ― even as another Black weekly, the Savannah Herald, was in print at the time."},{"_id":"VAMPSWXZQVFKPLUHXH2IVUNVUE","additional_properties":{"_id":1739276636232},"type":"text","content":"Shirley heard similar sentiments in her work as a counselor at Savannah State, the local historically Black university."},{"_id":"A3JB7CJQMNG43JHNYWZHMVEJHI","additional_properties":{"_id":1739276636233},"type":"text","content":"The Jameses sensed a business opportunity and resurrected the Tribune in 1973. They faced ― and won ― a challenge that make it to the Georgia Supreme Court<b> </b>over ownership of the publication’s name and history and have led the paper ever since, with Shirley taking on the title of publisher in 1983. 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James cites the bevy of <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/politics/new-georgia-voting-laws-put-in-place-ahead-of-2024-presidential-election/OFSN5TSNLFF3DH5WFXG6IMSVNQ/\" target=\"_blank\">voting law changes</a> made since the 2020 presidential election, when false allegations of voter fraud led the Georgia General Assembly to alter the process around absentee ballots and in-person voting."},{"_id":"RVRWQN2KLNGL5LWL2GMZ5O2DII","additional_properties":{"_id":1739276636243},"type":"text","content":"The Tribune’s news staff, led by Editorial Assistant Tirany Reeves, devoted hundreds of columns to explainers and notices about deadlines and application processes. 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The law change allows bigger homes on the coastal barrier island, which is home to a Gullah Geechee community. Those residents are descendants of enslaved West Africans who worked the island’s plantations before emancipation and the Civil War."},{"_id":"ECDLKBG2SJGF5HTOZKLOIE26V4","additional_properties":{"_id":1739979601057},"type":"text","content":"<a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-news/descendants-of-former-slaves-on-georgia-island-notch-legal-win/TJVSQTYC35GT3O4IDSNXCN6FOM/\" target=\"_blank\">An injunction</a> imposed by a Superior Court in November halted the issuance of building permits until the Georgia’s high court rules on the case."},{"_id":"3SZXYCD3BFGYVIUSVUQETBLHQQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1739979601058},"type":"text","content":"Sapelo Island is the rare inhabited barrier island along the Georgia coast not dotted with beachfront homes, resorts and other familiar signs of oceanside development. Aside from a tiny gift shop next to the post office, a small convenience market, a primitive campground and a restaurant open by reservation only, Sapelo has no commercial amenities."},{"_id":"DSP3OT66DFCH7HRHQVC4J6CMNY","additional_properties":{"_id":1727124016497},"type":"text","content":"Part of the reason is the island is connected to the mainland by ferryboat, not a road or bridge. Another factor is a property zoning restriction that limits the size of residences. The ordinance has prevented the building of luxury homes and hotels such as those found elsewhere along the coast in places like Tybee Island and St. Simons Island."},{"_id":"QSNUFNNZZVEHBK6DSY26I4COKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1727124016498},"type":"text","content":"In September 2023, local elected officials <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/politics/bigger-beach-homes-threaten-gullah-geechee-culture-on-georgias-coast/5BWIAJHPY5GYXNRT4AWAXNZXOY/\" target=\"_blank\">altered Sapelo’s zoning law</a>, more than doubling the maximum size of homes from 1,400 square feet to 3,000 square feet. The change came despite protest from Sapelo residents and other locals who voiced fears that more square footage would spark a wave of development and turn the island’s lone residential neighborhood, the Gullah Geechee community of Hog Hammock, into just another beach vacation spot."},{"_id":"GHIQUJBC4FEDHC2AH2YKRETPR4","additional_properties":{"_id":1727124016499},"type":"text","content":"Several Gullah Geechee residents mounted a voter referendum to repeal the ordinance."},{"_id":"X5O3V34A5NCXTJQX2IIKZBGANA","additional_properties":{"_id":1727124016500},"type":"text","content":"A judge ruled that ballot item illegal on Sept. 25, 2024,<b> </b>halting a special election in which early voting was already underway."},{"_id":"T3HKANHPC5HTVF3N6OGP5ZXQSY","additional_properties":{"_id":"4U5QKF5RRJDRLGTMQ72XKAATHE"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Judge halts Sapelo Island zoning referendum in blow to Gullah Geechee","url":"https://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-news/judge-issues-decision-in-contested-sapelo-island-referendum-over-zoning/TZY5AMJICFA2TGAO22QAWBFGFY/"},{"_id":"GHIQUJBC4FEDHC2AH2YKRETPR4","additional_properties":{"_id":1727124016499},"type":"text","content":"The dispute has attracted national attention."},{"_id":"QSUR5RJCANFMPEXPPVASZUE3WA","additional_properties":{"_id":1727304926434},"type":"text","content":"Here’s what you need to know about Sapelo, the Gullah Geechee and the referendum."},{"owner":{"sponsored":false,"id":"ajc"},"address":{},"syndication":{},"auth":{"1":"5fd34b320571d98e8b4e6510907d1fdc83fa804acaa2a922d752611147a4da20"},"caption":"McIntosh County residents were to vote in a referendum that if successful would have repealed a zoning ordinance that dictates the size of beach homes on Sapelo Island. 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The island is part of McIntosh County, a sparsely populated county renowned for its shrimping fleet."},{"_id":"2PWZBUFREFFIPEULU2Q4GPWLYI","additional_properties":{"_id":1727124016504},"type":"text","content":"Sapelo is not connected to the mainland by a road or bridge and is accessed only by private boat or a state-run ferry. The state of Georgia owns 97% of the 16,500-acre island and manages its land as an estuarine reserve and marine institute. Georgia also operates the Reynolds Mansion, a plantation manor house, as a state park."},{"_id":"3HXF7DB3ZJBAHAJT2ZTJLMR56I","additional_properties":{"_id":1727124016505},"type":"text","content":"Private land holders own 434 acres of Sapelo in and around the Gullah Geechee community of Hog Hammock. The neighborhood is centered on the interior of the island, but several privately owned properties have water views."},{"_id":"KAXOB3AMW5GPZOZPAHTBFF6ZVE","additional_properties":{"_id":1727124016506},"type":"text","content":"Sapelo is 3.1 miles wide at its widest point and 12 miles long."},{"level":2,"_id":"A62EHKVLPREYPNV5PP3ENE2NWA","additional_properties":{"_id":1739979601072},"type":"header","content":"Who are the Gullah Geechee?"},{"_id":"SUG5BDMQRNG53I2KLD75IL72ME","additional_properties":{"_id":1727124016508},"type":"text","content":"Enslaved from West Africa were first brought to work Sapelo’s plantations in the early 1800s. The largest crop was sugar cane, and at the height approximately 385 laborers worked the fields."},{"_id":"5BYUOSDMGBH2JLND7BF5RCHFJ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1727124016509},"type":"text","content":"Following emancipation and the Civil War’s end in 1865, many of the freed slaves remained on Sapelo and established a number of settlements. They became known as Gullah Geechee and survived through farming, timbering and oystering. Tobacco magnate R.J. Reynolds bought much of Sapelo in 1934 and consolidated the Gullah Geechee settlements into one community at Hog Hammock."},{"_id":"K4KMBUYV4NEVVFAOMDTRWBE5NA","additional_properties":{"_id":1727124016510},"type":"text","content":"The Gullah Geechee population has slowly dwindled in the decades since as descendants moved off the island. Today, fewer than 40 live full time on Sapelo and less than half the property in Hog Hammock is owned by Gullah Geechee. Those who still live on Sapelo occupy modest dwellings, such as cottages and mobile homes. These residences were built to comply with Hog Hammock’s longtime property zoning ordinance that limited homes to 1,400 square feet of interior space."},{"_id":"Q5RM5NDK3JDE5CNX2BJY757OBI","additional_properties":{"_id":1727124016511},"type":"text","content":"That zoning law was changed Sept. 12, 2023, and now allows residences measuring up to 3,000 square feet."},{"referent":{"referent_properties":{"subtitle":"Gullah-Geechee-Land Protections","caption":"Jazz Watts, a resident of Sapelo Island, wears a hat that reads \"I am Sapelo\" outside the McIntosh County courthouse in Darien, Ga., on Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. 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In addition to the dwelling size change, the initial proposal included language that would have allowed a marina to be built on the island and removed references to historic preservation of the community."},{"_id":"EDMHQZVKFNDSPEKBYI66DWDDKQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1727124016514},"type":"text","content":"According to Sapelo’s Gullah Geechee residents, none were consulted by the county during the ordinance revision process. Public meetings were held on the ordinance in 2021 and 2022. The ordinance change was made in September 2023."},{"_id":"BFAMMTTJ6BDQZJGEKBFQREBCNQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1727124016515},"type":"text","content":"The McIntosh Commission narrowed the ordinance to focus on home square footage before the vote. The revision passed 3-2, with Chairman David Stevens casting the deciding vote. In remarks during the meeting, Stevens blamed the Gullah Geechee for necessitating the zoning change by selling Hog Hammock properties to nondescendants and added that the current generation of Gullah Geechee lack the cultural appreciation shown by their ancestors."},{"level":2,"_id":"USLAEGCCRFE3DKRN4UHSTD3XXE","additional_properties":{"_id":1739979601082},"type":"header","content":"How did the Gullah Geechee fight the ordinance change?"},{"_id":"SF2TNZ7SZZDUBCFI5MHBECVWOE","additional_properties":{"_id":1727124016517},"type":"text","content":"Sapelo residents filed a lawsuit challenging the validity of the ordinance in October 2023. They claimed race discrimination, saying the change would lead to property tax increases that would force them to sell their land. A judge dismissed that lawsuit in March 2024, citing a technical error. 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The claim names the probate court judge and the McIntosh Board of Elections as defendants and cites, among other arguments, that the home rule provision does not apply to zoning decisions. The suit sought to halt the referendum election, which opened with early voting on Sept. 9."},{"_id":"77GZDZNKIJCJHPRSGL24EPGASM","additional_properties":{"_id":1727124016521},"type":"text","content":"A Superior Court judge <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-news/a-voter-referendum-on-this-georgia-island-is-being-contested-in-court-and-at-the-ballot-box/7TNIBVJ52FEYDOVFBZJ5O7Q6SQ/\" target=\"_blank\">heard arguments</a> in the case on Sept. 20, including from lawyers for the organizers of the petition. 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And scholars like Christian Kravagna, a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, laud its innovative approach. Writing in London’s Tate museum website, Kravagna said, “‘The Art of the Negro’ was of vital importance in offering an alternative history of global art from the Black perspective.”"},{"_id":"OPLDBMOVFFBAXIOXM5ZYWIEITI","additional_properties":{"_id":1739214626735},"type":"text","content":"Historically resonant, the six 12-by-12-foot panels created between 1950 and 1951 are also thrillingly beautiful, executed in the muted pastels so indicative of their ‘50s origin. But those subdued colors coexist with Woodruff’s bold critique. In “The Art of the Negro” Woodruff addresses eternal issues of art looting, indigenous art traditions, Colonialism and the often denigrated creative output of non-Western artists."},{"_id":"PYTC75L2NRERFGPLOGMU3JIZOA","additional_properties":{"_id":1739214626736},"type":"text","content":"“Their significance was enormous for the time,” said Danille Taylor, director of the Clark Atlanta University Art Museum (CAUAM), who often leads groups of students and visitors on tours of the murals."},{"_id":"3MPEAVQPKZGDZPLQA2T2XWJMQI","additional_properties":{"_id":1739214626737},"type":"text","content":"“These works were conceived in the 1940s,” said Taylor, “when there was no other place in the Deep South where African Americans could go to graduate school. 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A Black janitor who watched him walk through the museum’s front door told him he was the first Black man to have ever done so. During his 15 years at Atlanta University, Woodruff established the university’s art program and the Atlanta University Art Annuals (1942–70) to counter the lack of exhibition opportunities for many African American artists."},{"_id":"HDOJSDGQ6VAT5NGQNYHZXVVUQY","additional_properties":{"_id":1739214626741},"type":"text","content":"During a break from teaching in 1938 Woodruff honed his skills working side by side with one of the mural form’s icons — Mexican artist Diego Rivera. Woodruff assisted Rivera in creating murals for the Hotel Reforma in Mexico City. CAUMA curator Clarke Brown says she sees evidence of Rivera’s influence in the geometric forms that define Woodruff’s work in “The Art of the Negro.”"},{"_id":"S3VZIH4X4RBGBB6AU3ICLNB47E","additional_properties":{"_id":1739214626742},"type":"text","content":"Following his time with Rivera, Woodruff was commissioned to create the Amistad murals at Alabama’s Talladega College, which, in part, depict the slave rebellion aboard the Spanish slave ship La Amistad. 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Though Woodruff’s Amistad murals are marked by the crisp, representational social realism of Diego Rivera, “The Art of the Negro” murals are indebted to abstraction and cubism, offering a far more stylized vision of the Black experience."},{"_id":"3PPXXLKWDNCVLLQEYKZUWBIYMU","additional_properties":{"_id":1739214626745},"type":"text","content":"“The Art of the Negro” is a midcentury “Black Panther” and reclamation of Black heroism and influence, offering a corrective to the long-held idea that artists like Picasso, Matisse and Cezanne invented modernism."},{"_id":"RNWJPEDFCREXPB4CW56NU35M3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1739214626746},"type":"text","content":"“I’ve always had a high regard and respect for the African artist and his art. 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Soldiers hoist sculptures of African figures over their heads in fits of destruction. Abstracted ribbons of fire rise from the scene."},{"_id":"IXB6ECBHZRFO5ESXM6YDZTPV6Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1739214626751},"type":"text","content":"In “Parallels” Woodruff moves beyond African influence to show the artistic contributions of a wide swath of cultures, including Mayan, Aztec and Native American. 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At the crest of the painting sit two female muses, one African and one European, to attest to what Taylor calls Woodruff’s double consciousness."},{"_id":"DZZZRREMVVHLZALD3M5WQG76MA","additional_properties":{"_id":1739214626754},"type":"text","content":"CAUMA regularly loans its collection of some 1,100 works to institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of New York, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts and the Brooklyn Museum. The Woodruff murals, however, have never moved beyond the walls of Clark Atlanta, even during a $75,000 conservation financed by the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Layers of grime and smoke from hundreds of cigarettes huffed at university gatherings and mixers from the ‘50s until today were removed during that 2022 restoration. “They’re so much brighter,” said Taylor."},{"_id":"WNMFKVLRFZABJOFZ4Q6CQWS7KU","additional_properties":{"_id":1739214626755},"type":"text","content":"Most recently, the Art Institute of Chicago has included life-size replicas of the murals at the entrance to the critically celebrated exhibition “Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica.” Critic Alison Cuddy writing for Chicago’s NewCity calls the inclusion of the high-resolution reproduction of Woodruff’s murals “a touchstone for the entire exhibition.”"},{"_id":"3PGKIIKYMZBNTLUFSZRFHJY43Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1739214626756},"type":"text","content":"Even today, contemporary curators and historians recognize the ongoing resonance of Woodruff’s mural."},{"_id":"FLHZ5UMASRGCLI6J623JAP5UTA","additional_properties":{"_id":1739214626757},"type":"text","content":"“I think for 1952 this was an extraordinarily radical work,” said Taylor."},{"_id":"WJQ6E6PJ5RFGTKDVUGDP76QUGY","type":"divider"},{"level":1,"_id":"5FDDMSMBQ5HXZHZ74FDGJEHWLU","additional_properties":{},"type":"header","content":"<b>ART EXHIBIT</b>"},{"_id":"Y3B2U2Z2ABCFXHLMJHYFB7VZAY","additional_properties":{"_id":1739214626759},"type":"text","content":"<b>“The Art of the Negro.”</b> 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday. 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And he helped stakeholders citywide understand they had a responsibility to help students reach that potential."},{"_id":"G7XI2GJMLRCFPKB5TDMRTSGWJM","additional_properties":{"_id":1739392422701},"type":"text","content":"Now 25 years after his <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/06/us/alonzo-crim-first-black-chief-of-schools-in-south-dies-at-71.html\" target=\"_blank\">death</a> at the age of 71, educators still try to re-create the buy-in that Crim generated in Atlanta in the ‘70s and ‘80s. Through mentoring programs, partnerships with businesses and parent engagement efforts, the community of believers endures."},{"_id":"TOZD5PML4ZDGRG3RVJGZ3GWB7M","additional_properties":{"_id":1739392422702},"type":"text","content":"The values Crim practiced may be even more vital after the COVID-19 pandemic, when chronic absenteeism in schools has <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/education/can-automated-messages-help-boost-low-attendance-in-metro-atlanta-schools/N7CCBSUNUVH5RG7QD66AZRXMDE/\" target=\"_blank\">soared</a> in Atlanta and across the nation, and students have faced <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/education/georgia-students-reading-scores-on-the-nations-report-card-didnt-change-much-in-two-years/JZQ5YH5MVNGLTLX64W3MKYL3WI/\" target=\"_blank\">academic setbacks</a> and <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/education/more-than-1000-dekalb-students-need-psych-evals-theyll-likely-wait/I5OHC43HSVB4ZPZW2FYBTONAFM/\" target=\"_blank\">mental health</a> challenges. And they may be more vital in the current political climate, where differing opinions can feel personal."},{"_id":"AHT6BZKHB5CXBBEYSUVGMDOWCQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1739392422703},"type":"text","content":"Crim went on to teach at Georgia State and Spelman College, where Sharan Crim said her father ended each class the same way — with a reminder: “None of us is as strong as all of us.”"},{"_id":"6B5JHNOQDRDZZLOXBPFIYOU5BM","type":"raw_html","content":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.documentcloud.org/documents/25522142-a-community-of-believers-by-alonzo-a-crim/?embed=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600px\" style=\"border: 1px solid #d8dee2; border-radius: 0.5rem;\"></iframe>"},{"_id":"UGK4XIOVVNEBHGO4L2QE4FS44E","additional_properties":{"_id":1734620041628},"alignment":"left","type":"text","content":"<b>ABOUT THIS SERIES</b>"},{"_id":"6CAA4ZBJY5HGDOB42XJPIHE2HA","additional_properties":{"_id":1738961711619},"type":"text","content":"<i>This year’s AJC Black History Month series, marking its 10th year, focuses on the role African Americans played in building Atlanta and the overwhelming influence that has had on American culture. 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White flight had replaced a white majority with more than 80 percent black enrollment. As soon as Crim arrived, Congressman Andrew Young invited him to a three-day meeting with civil rights leaders, who made him feel as if he were on the witness stand, Crim later wrote. Atlanta was the desegregation case they were watching. 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Mays was president of the Atlanta school board when the board hired Crim, and Mays became a sort of mentor for Crim, Willie said. The stakes were high for both men, Willie said. \"I know how they felt about it,\" he said. \"They wanted educational excellence and at the same time bringing everybody along.\" -- Doug Cumming, Pete Scott, AJC archives (original run date: May 4, 2000)","credits":{"by":[{"name":"AJC file","type":"author","byline":"AJC file","slug":"ajc-file"}]},"subtitle":"Mays as a mentor","resized_obj":{"src":"https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/XJR4IKUWJD2GW3ADQWPV7JK2F4.jpg?auth=dbbe291057ec1c222c329f1c781a1a3feaec37a71ceddbd054b5f9d8c9f2c1b0&width=1260&height=840&smart=true"},"width":1887,"height":2000,"auth":{}},{"url":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/VAG3UDLN6V6PFP5SRYWFJNY3RM.jpg","caption":"March 8, 1976 -- School union leader Willie Bolden talks with Dr. Alonzo Crim. 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Some board members grew weary of his travels --- Crim was considered a pioneer of urban education and was much in demand as a speaker nationally --- and were upset he wasn't home more. When some board members pushed to oust administrators they viewed as poor leaders, Crim countered with proposals for staff development instead. Crim also drew heat from neighborhoods when, at the direction of the city's school board, he began recommending the closing of under-enrolled schools. Residents and board members objected to the closings in general, but were more upset about the fact that under-enrolled schools in predominantly white areas seemed less likely to be considered for closings. -- Doug Cumming, Pete Scott, AJC archives (original run date: May 4, 2000)","credits":{"by":[{"name":"Jim Battles / AJC file","type":"author","byline":"Jim Battles / AJC file","slug":"jim-battles-ajc-file"}]},"subtitle":"With success comes criticism","resized_obj":{"src":"https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/MWG2WSMJ2FIQRYXNAPXZG5B5I4.jpg?auth=dff5b8292455dbafa361a1e6d7b76ea586c5f4aedde25bb655f83f286139e1f4&width=1260&height=840&smart=true"},"width":3442,"height":2136,"auth":{}},{"url":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/IRLWGOXTW3J66AH36SM4N2OZKU.jpg","caption":"July 12, 1988 -- Atlanta school board President June Cofer says farewell to the retiring Dr. Alonzo Crim. Crim drew strong support from the Atlanta Council of PTAs. \"He was a real trouper for parents and gave them a way of participating in the schools, \" said Thelma Malone, the current president of the Atlanta Council of PTAs. \"He didn't use those thousand-dollar words with a fifty-cent meaning even though he was a highly educated superintendent.\" -- Doug Cumming, Pete Scott, AJC archives (original run date: May 4, 2000)","credits":{"by":[{"name":"AJC file","type":"author","byline":"AJC file","slug":"ajc-file"}]},"subtitle":"Leaving a fine legacy","resized_obj":{"src":"https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/IRLWGOXTW3J66AH36SM4N2OZKU.jpg?auth=6f23e846b05e75b2bc59c6895f0b05e6e2288a3375492b7c28df1a45df37a563&width=1260&height=840&smart=true"},"width":1561,"height":2000,"auth":{}},{"url":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/NQRO4AUEE44O3AWHGYJJSZHC6E.jpg","caption":"It was Crim's place in history that people talked about in the wake of his death, at 71, in an early morning three-car wreck on DeKalb Avenue in Atlanta, May 2000. Police said Crim was driving in the wrong direction in a reversible lane on DeKalb Avenue about 12:20 a.m. when he clipped one car, then collided with another. He died an hour later at Grady Memorial Hospital. The wreck occurred about three blocks from the high school named for him after he retired as superintendent in 1988. The flags at Crim High and at Atlanta's other 96 schools flew at half-staff for the courtly, Harvard-educated Chicago native who guided the system through difficult years. \"This city owes a lot to Dr. Crim, \" said retired Atlanta school attorney Warren Fortson. \"I know what a shambles the school system was in, and Dr. Crim raised the standards way up there in the eyes of this country and people who looked to Atlanta,\" said Fortson. -- Doug Cumming, Pete Scott, AJC archives (original run date: May 4, 2000)","credits":{"by":[{"name":"AJC file","type":"author","byline":"AJC file","slug":"ajc-file"}]},"subtitle":"Tragic passing","resized_obj":{"src":"https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/NQRO4AUEE44O3AWHGYJJSZHC6E.jpg?auth=40d4c03bd9df6ad42e17047f6dff18730616fc02337c7f796fdd75486766ee7d&width=1260&height=840&smart=true"},"width":2162,"height":2872,"auth":{}}],"credits":{"by":[{"image":{"version":"0.5.8","url":"https://author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub/ajc/8d33e6db-5390-40c1-9ed0-77b486af0cb9.png"},"socialLinks":[{"site":"email","deprecated":true,"deprecation_msg":"Please use social_links.","url":"malbright@ajc.com"}],"social_links":[{"site":"email","url":"malbright@ajc.com"}],"name":"Mandi Albright","description":"Mandi Albright writes the AJC's Deja News feature and is an online presentation specialist with the AJC's Digital Presentation team.","_id":"mandi-albright","additional_properties":{"original":{"lastName":"Albright","image":"https://author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub/ajc/8d33e6db-5390-40c1-9ed0-77b486af0cb9.png","role":"Presentation Specialist","education":[],"longBio":"Mandi Albright has worked at the AJC, her hometown paper, since 2000. 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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Jim Brown. Max Robinson. Muhammad Ali. Richard Roundtree. Even James Brown took out his conk for a while to sport an Afro."},{"_id":"D2ZGR7PLKVGPTK35S3QQPYSNHY","additional_properties":{"_id":1738766690459},"type":"text","content":"On the Black woman, the Afro was a commanding symbol of strength and beauty. Angela Davis. Maya Angelou. Minnie Riperton. Aretha Franklin. 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Organized and headlined by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, the gathering was a call to Black men to seek atonement for their indiscretions as well as encouragement to become better husbands, fathers, sons, brothers and friends."},{"level":2,"_id":"J3WG2H6XSFH3LLF5LLTQMIF5RM","additional_properties":{"_id":1739577651549},"type":"header","content":"<b>The Negro leagues</b>"},{"owner":{"id":"ajc"},"workflow":{"status_code":4},"auth":{"1":"18c4b7772b941d52bebeaf06e805c1aa468a4143feeff242d706c12091a2b01e"},"caption":"Group portrait of players from the Monarchs and the Hilldale baseball teams in front of grandstands filled with spectators before the opening game of the 1924 Negro Leagues World Series on Oct. 11 in Kansas City, Mo. (J.E. 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The end result is a nation that mirrors the worst of itself, quelling the exceptionalism it claims and denying diversity it no doubt needs — and has always needed — to survive."},{"_id":"SZWRNMUYOJA2LHM3BZBHB4RW3Y","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"That school board chaos encompassed the uprisings of the so-called parental rights movement that topped your local news<b> </b>broadcast, riled up Facebook forums and demonized educators and students alike with precision and uniformed attacks marketed as “concern” for our most vulnerable population."},{"owner":{"sponsored":false,"id":"ajc"},"address":{},"syndication":{},"auth":{"1":"e0e1c05f3086d7d5fa6c35aba13e3257a034b70d828818709af67bb09bb8cad5"},"vanity_credits":{},"caption":"Nicole Carr is a journalist and journalism professor at Morehouse College. 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"},{"_id":"XWVGM4QWFVA2XPSG3CQFXXDZGM","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"That included uncovering exactly who was providing and financing this message, pushing for the passage of identical local and state legislation designed to dismantle undefinable “woke” education and how a minority coalition of loud and predominantly white people (not necessarily parents) managed to co-opt and mesh the meaning of diversity, equity and inclusion, critical race theory, public health measures and various curricula into an all-out war on educators and marginalized communities in the name of states’ or individual rights."},{"_id":"65JMKCNLLRB23BLAXYVGNSRKIE","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"What we, particularly those of us in “mainstream media,” so comfortably called a conservative movement was actually pretty radical in theory and action. It was also in lockstep with movements of our past that resulted in the use of mint julep textbooks and resistance to integration well into the 1980s."},{"_id":"4DRXNULHKZGNDDPKNHNC3IE5JU","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"I traveled the country to talk to people being assaulted, followed home and finding what appeared to be a bullet hole in their living window after a conflict at a school board meeting. "},{"_id":"BSUU4G7X4NBDZFX4BZ3ZJANVCE","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"In <a href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/conservative-transformation-wayne-new-jersey-school-board\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/conservative-transformation-wayne-new-jersey-school-board\">New Jersey</a>, I learned how a lifelong Republican and school board member had become the target of his beloved party when he wouldn’t affirm false accusations about the board’s motives. It was eerily similar to the experiences members of the GOP had amid the “Big Lie” about stolen elections. "},{"_id":"26223U66EJDDZMIF4ZNPT6AC64","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Right here in Georgia, I <a href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-dei-crt-schools-parents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-dei-crt-schools-parents\">uncovered</a> moblike harassment targeting an educator who was asked by the Cherokee County school system to apply and take on a diversity, equity and inclusion job, only to become the target of unspeakable juvenile and dangerous behavior that followed her to Cobb County’s school system. The campaign to get her fired was led by locals and people who were in no way connected to or living near the district itself. "},{"_id":"LY76SHKFXZEZHDJFGIP6SHZ5QI","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Parents had undergone training that included material from the unaccredited Prager University as they received advice on how to cook up enough emotion, chaos and video footage to appear on Tucker Carlson’s now defunct prime-time cable network show. School board members had security in parking lots and in front of their homes. The parents had been taught their kids were being demonized in school for being white."},{"_id":"B3UMFMHA4NGMZGVVPDXB4BPLIE","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"But the story was bigger than that. "},{"_id":"MTS6N53SNRF3TD3DZZDJJNWRIA","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"It was about the newly formed coalitions asking people to anonymously track and report educators they deemed “woke” (reporters, don’t ever let someone else use the term without asking the person to define it). And it was about this sort of coalescing of chaos that makes it difficult to understand the alleged issue at hand, often times because evidence does not support the claims used to anger or excite fear in the accusers."},{"_id":"3VCKTOINJRDYLGPVGA7GSAAEYU","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Perhaps the portion of the 2022 story that stood out to me the most was buried at the end. "},{"_id":"2CSEF3W24ZG4DORDEZ35VX5P6Y","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Cherokee County Schools had banned the word equity from its district initiatives to avoid the backlash and fervor of the movement. No one had successfully explained to or convinced detractors that DEI — as defined and laid out in public documents by the districts themselves — was in service to children with Individualized Education Programs, physical disabilities and an array of socioeconomic experiences. 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"},{"_id":"EFPO7ZF6OFFVNLREX6OVOIHGWI","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"As we watch federal employees targeted and placed on DEI watch lists, remember that the same mechanisms were deployed by “conservative” groups against educators who became so disheveled they didn’t understand what they could teach and when, even if the material met longtime standards."},{"_id":"GEF5WH57V5F67AJXEASBAHJ43E","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"When we think about the level of chaos that ensued in our nation’s Capitol, remember the uprisings in the school board and who was held accountable for harm and who was not. "},{"_id":"CBGKBWW6F5BHPD76CU6S32LAWM","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"When we think about the legacy of school vouchers, remember that data is already showing us we’re <a href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/segregation-academies-school-voucher-money-north-carolina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/segregation-academies-school-voucher-money-north-carolina\">maintaining</a> segregation academies across the country. When we think about President Donald Trump’s desire to <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/education/trump-again-promises-to-abolish-the-us-department-of-education/CA6SVY5X2BCK3JLVXLOU2GTBA4/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.ajc.com/education/trump-again-promises-to-abolish-the-us-department-of-education/CA6SVY5X2BCK3JLVXLOU2GTBA4/\">dismantle the Department of Education</a>, think about where you’ve recently heard that idea before. 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It’s where we learn how to deal with conflict and sensibilities before we shoot off into the world. "},{"_id":"WG7F7GRMUVFFBN5TJ2PPGDEE2I","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"It took federal government action to force a more equal playing field for access to and resources for the schoolhouses. And it’s the new federal government that is returning us to a place the majority of us do not want to be."},{"_id":"RGNY4TE3SJCC7K6DMANGTHH4KM","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"We may not bear witness to the chaos at the school board any more. The goal has been met. The unraveling — on a much higher level — has begun. 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Pace capitalized on its success by booking the Black Swan Troubadours — a revue led by Waters and Henderson and briefly featuring boxer Jack Johnson — to tour the “chitlin circuit,” a series of venues that allowed Black musicians to perform in front of Black audiences."},{"_id":"MS34BVEPLVFFHNHVMTN2BIGE7I","additional_properties":{"_id":1739293193055},"type":"text","content":"Pace, business manager for <a href=\"https://aaregistry.org/story/the-moon-illustrated-is-published/\" target=\"_blank\">Moon Illustrated Weekly</a>, one of the first magazines published by and targeting Black audiences, utilized his relationships with Black newspaper staffs and editors to help place ads,<b> </b>publicize new releases and concert dates. 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Between us we spanned the years of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s life from 1927 to 1945, from the time he ran for governor of New York in 1928</i><i><b> </b></i><i>until that April day at Warm Springs when the food stacked up uneaten on the stove, and the Little White House echoed with tip-toed footsteps,” because the president had just died.</i>"},{"_id":"VSI4DT6DGNCEZEDUWRZQYW7DAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1738955230296},"type":"text","content":"Elizabeth McDuffie wrote this around 1960 as part of her unpublished manuscript, “<a href=\"https://radar.auctr.edu/islandora/object/auc.090%3A0260\" target=\"_blank\">The Back Door of the White House</a>.” Some might think the title implies she wasn’t welcome through the front door, but that wasn’t the case.<b> </b>McDuffie herself was the back door, allowing activists and others access to then-President Roosevelt through her."},{"level":2,"_id":"2EVG5AL7KRALPK4J42BHERQFVE","additional_properties":{"_id":1738955230297},"type":"header","content":"Life in Atlanta"},{"_id":"L4KFJ67DYZH4VPO3JSUH7KUZGE","additional_properties":{"_id":1738955230298},"type":"text","content":"Born in Covington in 1881, Elizabeth Hall’s parents were former slaves; her father was a sharecropper at her birth."},{"_id":"S35AFGGBVRETPMJDMDFXN2OHGI","additional_properties":{"_id":1738955230299},"type":"text","content":"When she was 6, however, he moved the family to Atlanta when he accepted a job with the grading crew working on the <a href=\"https://www.nps.gov/places/l-p-grant-park.htm#:~:text=In%201883%2C%20Grant%20Park%20was,up%20plants%20for%20Grant%20Park.\" target=\"_blank\">recently established Grant Park</a>. Young “Lizzie,” as she was called, attended Summer Hill School and then high school at<b> </b>Morris Brown College. She went on to earn a bachelor’s degree from Morris Brown."},{"_id":"2344BBBC4BE65LFBUUITUV7PO4","additional_properties":{"_id":1738955230300},"type":"text","content":"Although she excelled in her classes, her skin color made it difficult to find work. She became a <a href=\"https://www.atlantahistorycenter.com/blog/more-than-a-housekeeper-the-story-of-elizabeth-mcduffie/\">maid for wealthy Atlanta residents</a>, including successful businessman and civic leader Edward Inman, his wife, Emily, and their two children, Hugh and Edward Jr."},{"_id":"JVGYMU6N4JBZ5FS3IK6XNNJBEE","additional_properties":{"_id":1738955230301},"type":"text","content":"It was at a small party where Lizzie caught the eye of a young barber named Irvin “Mac” McDuffie."},{"_id":"XVDCFC535ZGQFI3LE5QXWDZEKM","additional_properties":{"_id":1738955230302},"type":"text","content":"“They kept an eye on each other all night. At the end of the evening, McDuffie approached her and said with great formality, ‘Miss Hall, I have been favorably impressed with you. I would like to call,’ <a href=\"https://www.nps.gov/hofr/learn/historyculture/irvin-and-elizabeth-mcduffie.htm#:~:text=Elizabeth%20%E2%80%9CLizzie%E2%80%9D%20Hall%20was%20born,had%20been%20born%20in%20slavery.\">according to the National Park Service</a>. “They married not long after.”"},{"_id":"SQAFFC2K3FFDBDYRLYRLKLXQYE","additional_properties":{"_id":"QHV5IVQCT5FNZEZOBTJI2XTT7I"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Read AJC Black History Month Series","url":"https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-black-history/"},{"_id":"JU7RGNEE7JEIBJGZ4PG6YD6DKY","additional_properties":{"_id":1738955230304},"type":"text","content":"As manager of McDuffie Herndon barbershop ― financed by Atlanta’s first Black millionaire, <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-black-history/alonzo-herndon-how-he-became-atlantas-1st-black-millionaire/NHZSBDM3SBEEA32DRXNM3B24KQ/\" target=\"_blank\">Alonzo Herndon</a>, founder of Atlanta Life Insurance Co. ― Mac McDuffie heard Franklin D. Roosevelt was looking for a valet at his Warm Springs home."},{"_id":"4AEIFW22LBGPTORKZWTNBYSQUA","additional_properties":{"_id":1738955230305},"type":"text","content":"“‘After ten minutes of conversation,’ Mac recalled of his first meeting with FDR, ‘we closed the deal,’” the Park Service wrote."},{"_id":"GZ32YTTHRFEFVB7S2DO3UQZ3AE","additional_properties":{"_id":1738955230306},"type":"text","content":"When the Roosevelts moved into the White House in 1933, the McDuffies went with them. 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For three days in September, after Atlanta newspapers reported four alleged assaults on local white women, “white mobs killed dozens of Black Atlantans, wounded scores of others, and inflicted considerable property damage,”<b> </b>according to the <a href=\"https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/atlanta-race-massacre-of-1906/\" target=\"_blank\">New Georgia Encyclopedia</a>."},{"_id":"2MOOCY7TZNG5DILAXEPQIWOYFU","additional_properties":{"_id":1738955230312},"type":"text","content":"And because she remembered witnessing the race riot, “my job at the White House became a little more than a job,” McDuffie wrote in her memoir. “It became also a small crusade.”"},{"_id":"DPPKED3IVBBQLML3JG6JGWDJDA","additional_properties":{"_id":1738955230313},"type":"text","content":"The way she saw it, she had three ways to help her crusade: acting as a liaison between Black Americans and the president, helping to organize the United Government Employees union and campaigning for FDR “among my own people.”"},{"subtype":"facebook-post","referent":{"referent_properties":{"additional_properties":{"_id":1738955230314},"locale":"en_US"},"provider":"https://graph.facebook.com/v8.0/oembed_post?url=","service":"oembed","id":"https://www.facebook.com/WhiteHouseHistory/posts/pfbid02m9vkQYsxGE6C785vug12KwiWA3NhXBAda37pHggaqJGvB2Vf5XDpZuc2dEaPDPa4l","type":"facebook-post"},"_id":"GHYXUGA5FFEY7KLZBESPPXDQVU","raw_oembed":{"author_name":"The White House Historical Association","author_url":"https://facebook.com/WhiteHouseHistory","width":552,"html":"<div id=\"fb-root\"></div>\n<script async=\"1\" defer=\"1\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v22.0\"><\/script><div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https://www.facebook.com/WhiteHouseHistory/posts/pfbid02m9vkQYsxGE6C785vug12KwiWA3NhXBAda37pHggaqJGvB2Vf5XDpZuc2dEaPDPa4l\" data-width=\"552\"><blockquote cite=\"https://graph.facebook.com/167721133253158/posts/2005129619512291/\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\"><p>Elizabeth “Lizzie” McDuffie worked for the Roosevelt family as a maid from the 1920s until President Franklin D....</p>Posted by <a href=\"https://facebook.com/WhiteHouseHistory\">The White House Historical Association</a> on <a href=\"https://graph.facebook.com/167721133253158/posts/2005129619512291/\">Saturday, December 30, 2017</a></blockquote></div>","provider_url":"https://www.facebook.com","_id":"https://www.facebook.com/WhiteHouseHistory/posts/pfbid02m9vkQYsxGE6C785vug12KwiWA3NhXBAda37pHggaqJGvB2Vf5XDpZuc2dEaPDPa4l","additional_properties":{"_id":1738955230314},"provider_name":"Facebook","type":"facebook-post","locale":"en_US","version":"1.0"},"type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"WXIIICNBKFHCRCN4QFIRUS5LLE","additional_properties":{"_id":1738955230315},"type":"text","content":"As word of the McDuffies' relationship with the president spread, through newspaper articles and word of mouth, the couple received numerous letters from all over the country, seeking their help."},{"_id":"VERAXZDWQJBGXKCEKRHTHBKEOQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1738955230316},"type":"text","content":"<a href=\"https://www.scenichudson.org/viewfinder/fdrs-sosocpa-remembering-civil-rights-pioneer-elizabeth-mcduffie/\" target=\"_blank\">One historian wrote</a>: “Black leaders … realized that even though (White House Press Secretary) Stephen Early blocked them from getting information and requests to the president through normal channels, the McDuffies were glad to act behind the scenes as couriers to both the president and First Lady.”"},{"owner":{"sponsored":false,"id":"ajc"},"address":{},"syndication":{},"auth":{"1":"afa529e6c1a0eaf7fb0fbb4dcc865e1890cfdcdd81a2822c2d85dad95a5f568e"},"vanity_credits":{},"caption":"Alphonso Harris wrote this letter to Elizabeth McDuffie. 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The city charter was changed to strengthen the mayor’s authority, giving Atlanta’s first Black leader unprecedented power."},{"_id":"PODH2R6GKJALTMIYMP3TQMXGGQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1739035708139},"type":"text","content":"He used that power to execute what is hailed as one of his greatest successes: increasing Black wealth through <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/business/mayor-maynard-jackson-gave-atlantas-black-businesses-a-lift-but-at-a-cost/L3IBX6SOUJAUBCFADRBF54FYLQ/\" target=\"_blank\">bolstering minority business contracts</a> with the city ― especially at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, what former Mayor Shirley Franklin calls “the goose that laid the golden egg” for the economic success it has brought to the city. Before Jackson took office, Black businesses held less than 1% of government contracts."},{"_id":"5ODXALGGVZFJ5JYV5SOJPZUBCE","additional_properties":{"_id":1739035708140},"type":"text","content":"But Jackson wasn’t immune to criticism. 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Franklin won 50.01% of the vote in her first bid for mayor, a stark contrast to the more than 90% when she was reelected for a second term."},{"_id":"OLYQ2DLRW5DNTMOZPPIQKQTPVU","additional_properties":{"_id":1739035708208},"type":"text","content":"In her first weeks in office, she did what she considers <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/local/first-female-mayor-saw-plenty-ups-downs/QhBe3OPSKV4aibmHcVpRDK/\" target=\"_blank\">the hardest thing she had to do</a> as mayor: She told 1,000 city employees they were out of a job. They hadn’t done anything wrong, the city was facing a massive economic shortfall. Her advisers couldn’t give her an exact number; estimates ranged from a $40 million to $100 million deficit on the city’s $400 million budget. 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During his term, he has struggled to get ahead of what he says is misinformation and half-truths that have spread exponentially across X, formerly called Twitter, and Instagram. He’s been known to message naysayers directly in an attempt to mitigate falsehoods."},{"_id":"RUZQZAV2ANHXZJ24ZW4XJZHIFA","additional_properties":{"_id":1739035708285},"type":"text","content":"But at the same time the project was under scrutiny, the city saw a drop in homicides by <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/crime/atlanta-homicides-drop-21-after-focus-on-combating-guns-and-gangs/VFLDC32EWBAKTHCMJ6P7YOUIYM/\" target=\"_blank\">a record 21% in 2023</a> and <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/crime/homicides-drop-in-atlanta-for-second-year-but-still-not-to-pre-pandemic-levels/3LTSWCU5OFDXFPOWDRETHNHJFE/#:~:text=For%20the%20second%20year%20in,down%20from%20135%20in%202023.\" target=\"_blank\">another 6% in 2024</a>. 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