2 Dozen Protest Federal Shutdown Outside CDC
ATLANTA (AP) — About two dozen people protested outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday afternoon, trying to cast a harsh spotlight on the temporary federal shutdown. The...
View ArticleGun Rights Group To Challenge Stand Your Ground
Atlanta (WAOK/AJC) — GeorgiaCarry.org has asked a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit that was filed by civil rights group Rainbow Push Coalition and two families. The lawsuit asks that the courts do...
View ArticleHutchins: I Think The Hawks Are Going To Be An Example Of Diversity And...
Some insight perhaps into what happened during Friday’s long-awaited meeting between civil rights leaders in Atlanta and executives with the Atlanta Hawks organization. After the two hour meeting, the...
View ArticleThe Bev Smith: PUSH for Votes
Tonight Bev Smith speaks with Vice President for Legal Affairs for the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, Janice L. Mathis. The Rainbow PUSH Coalition’s mission is to protect, defend, and gain civil rights by...
View ArticleSee Atlanta Preparing For Ferguson Protests
Janice Mathis with Rainbow Push Coalition says she’s never seen anything like it, nothing so deliberate and focused on a particular incident that was about to happen. According to Mathis, “I’ve seen...
View ArticleCops And Community Town Hall Meeting: Let Your Voice Be Heard At King Chapel
“We don’t want Atlanta to be the next McKinney, Baltimore, or Ferguson.” That’s what organizers of this weekend’s Cops and Community Town Hall Meeting tell me. It’s on Saturday, June 13, at Noon. It’ll...
View ArticleCharleston Gunman “Acted Out Of Evil”: Coalition Groups Vow To Rise Together...
Members of various Civil and Human Rights groups gathered in Atlanta Friday in a show of solidarity against violence and hatred. They vowed to fight the “hatred shown in the mass shooting” at a...
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