Georgia

“Inclusion” at the University of North Georgia @UNG_News pic.twitter.com/2Ofdd33jqB — Sam (@Pendulum2) March 16, 2015 The University of North Georgia has succeeded in depicting the true issue with America, but ironically, it was an accident. This week, the university issued an apology and agreed to stop circulating a course catalogue with a derogatory cover that depicts […]

Hundreds took to the streets of Decatur, Georgia yesterday, stopping traffic, chanting and holding signs like “Demilitarize the police” to protest the officer-involved shooting death of Anthony Hill, an unarmed 27-year-old black man in DeKalb County, a suburb of Atlanta. RELATED: Unarmed Air Force Veteran Anthony Hill Shot And Killed By Police Protesters, using hashtags […]

A judge in Sandy Springs, Ga. last week sentenced a sanitation worker to 30 days behind bars for, well, starting work too early, according to Atlanta’s WSB-TV. The worker, Kevin McGill, told the news station last week that he was fresh on the job when he was cited recently for picking up trash just after […]

Fulton County officials in Georgia are investigating a shooting that left a 22-year veteran officer dead late Tuesday night. The officer was shot during an ambush while responding to a shots fired call with his colleague shortly after midnight. Neighbors in the Fairburn neighborhood claim the suspect was shooting in his own home before knocking […]

Alton Walter (pictured), a Richmond County Georgia Sheriff’s deputy is facing felony charges of false imprisonment and cruelty to children in the first degree for allegedly handcuffing a 12-year-old boy to a pole, then beating and tasering him, reports WRDW News. The child’s mother, who has not been identified, reportedly called upon her friend Walter to […]

Georgia’s South Cobb High School basketball coach, Melonie Martin (pictured) was arrested and charged with simple battery and terroristic threats for allegedly biting and threatening the life of a fellow coach, according to WSB-TV. SEE ALSO: S.C. Man Used Taxi As Getaway After Alleged Bank Robbery Martin and fellow coach Tyrone Harris were reportedly at […]

Imagine Chiquita Hanley’s (pictured) horror at seeing a surveillance video of her 11-year-old son, Ravon, being choked by one of his teachers in the cafeteria of his DeKalb County, Ga., elementary school. Hanley’s nightmarish incident, which took place on May 22, reportedly occurred because the teacher, Stephanie Fleet, claims she was defending herself against the child who […]

Attorneys for a mentally challenged man sentenced to death for killing a sheriff deputy argue that he received poor defense from his previous lawyer, who was intoxicated throughout his trial. Robert Wayne Holsey (pictured) is scheduled to die via lethal injection at 7 p.m. Tuesday, the Huffington Post reports. A jury convicted Holsey of fatally shooting Baldwin County deputy […]

State Rep. Tyrone Brooks, D-Atlanta (pictured), is proposing that the state of Georgia adopt a resolution that formally apologizes for the unjust institution of slavery as well as past segregationist laws, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The push for the apology has reportedly gotten a cool reception from some Georgia legislators who argue that it would […]

  Georgia county investigator David Daniel (pictured) resigned this week after a Facebook, blaming the death of a 1-year-old Rodrickus Robinson on violent “Black culture,” according to Raw Story. SEE ALSO: Substitute Teacher Calls Black Students ‘N-Word,’ ‘Slaves’ During History Lesson Robinson died over the weekend, after he was caught in the crossfire of a […]

An unidentified Newton County, Ga., high school teacher was mandated by the district to remain home as an Ebola precautionary measure, upon learning from a student that her husband had just returned from a trip to West Africa, according to WSB-TV. RELATED: Really? Fearing Ebola, Universities Disinvite African Journalists The school district wasted no time in […]

    “How ironic! Michel[l]e Obama comes to town and Chicago politics comes to DeKalb” is how Georgia State Senator Fran Millar began his comment railing against a move to allow early voting in a predominately Black neighborhood. “Now we are to have Sunday voting at South DeKalb Mall just prior to the election,” he wrote. He continued, […]