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Josiah "Jazz" Watts holds copies of the petitions with signatures requesting a referendum to repeal the new zoning ordinance affecting Hogg Hummock on Sapelo Island. Credit: Susan Catron/The Current GA

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Petition starts process for county-wide zoning vote on Sapelo’s Hogg Hummock

Community groups in McIntosh County filed a petition in probate court Tuesday to force a county-wide vote on a controversial zoning change on Sapelo Island’s Hogg Hummock. 

July 10, 2024
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  • Mary Landers
This month, Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting is releasing a story called "40 Acres and a Lie," co-reported with the Center for Public Integrity and Mother Jones magazine

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  • History

Black families were promised land in Georgia. The government took it away

The promise of "40 acres and a mule" is probably the most famous attempt at reparations for slavery in the U.S., but it is mostly remembered as a broken promise.

June 21, 2024
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  • Pamela Kirkland

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  • Race

The Women Behind the Montgomery Bus Boycott

We've heard about Rosa Parks and her crucial role in the Montgomery bus boycott. But Parks was just one of many women who organized for years. In this episode, those women tell their own story.

March 22, 2023
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By:
  • LA Johnson,
  • Karen Grigsby Bates,
  • and 4 more
In this March 4, 2020 photo, Roslyn Pope poses with a framed copy of "An Appeal for Human Rights" in her home in Atlanta. Roslyn Pope, a college professor and musician who wrote “An Appeal for Human Rights,” laying out the reasons for the Atlanta Student Movement against systemic racism in 1960, has died. She was 84. Pope died on Jan. 18 in Arlington, Texas, where she moved from Atlanta to be with her daughters after her health began to fail in 2021, according to her family's obituary.

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Roslyn Pope, author of 'Appeal for Human Rights,' dies at 84

Roslyn Pope has died aged 84. She was a 21-year-old senior at Spelman College when she wrote "An Appeal for Human Rights," laying out the reasons for the Atlanta Student Movement in 1960.

February 13, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Juneteenth special edition of Political Rewind

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Political Rewind: Where does Georgia stand on the promise of freedom as we commemorate Juneteenth?

Friday on Political Rewind: On a special Juneteenth episode our panel examines the history of the holiday and what it means for our democracy. Plus, as legislation restricts how race is taught in schools, what does that mean for future generations?

 

June 17, 2022
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By:
  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • and 1 more
Winfred Rembert

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Georgia's latest Pulitzer Prize winner awarded posthumously

The late Winfred Rembert rose from humble beginnings in Cuthbert, Ga. to critical acclaim.

May 26, 2022
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  • Orlando Montoya
Workers remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from Market Street Park in Charlottesville, Va., in July. Initial plans to remove the statue four years ago sparked the infamous "Unite the Right" rally at which 32-year-old Heather Heyer was killed.

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  • Arts & Life

A Black museum asks to melt Charlottesville's Robert E. Lee statue to create new art

In 2017, debate over Charlottesville's Robert E. Lee statue sparked a violent neo-Nazi rally that left a woman dead. Now, a Black cultural center wants to melt it down and turn it into public art.

October 22, 2021
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  • Becky Sullivan
Rosenwald Hall in Seminole County, Oklahoma. The public school was a Rosenwald School built by Julius Rosenwald and Book T Washington.

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Political Rewind: Author, Photographer Andrew Feiler On The Enduring Legacy Of Rosenwald Schools

Monday on Political Rewind, a conversation with author and photographer Andrew Feiler about his new book, “A Better Life for Their Children: Julius Rosenwald, Booker T. Washington, and the 4,978 Schools That Changed America.” Feiler traveled some 25,000 miles to photograph 500 school buildings that represent a legacy of education in the South.

April 26, 2021
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Emilia Brock ,
  • and 1 more
Disney added a warning on its streaming service to some of its titles with racist depictions, including <em>Dumbo</em>. The crows' appearance and musical number in the movie "pay homage to racist minstrel shows," Disney said.

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  • Movies

Disney Warns Viewers Of Racism In Some Classic Movies With Strengthened Label

Disney strengthened language used to denounce racist depictions in some of its classic properties on the company's streaming service.

October 16, 2020
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By:
  • Reese Oxner
African Americans register to vote in the July 4 Georgia Democratic Primary in Atlanta, Ga., on May 3, 1944. Registrations are increasing in Atlanta as black schools are giving instructions to students in ballot casting procedure. (AP Photo)

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Battleground: Ballot Box | The History Of Racist Voting Laws In Georgia

On this episode of "Battleground: Ballot Box," we go back in time and explore the history of racist voting laws in Georgia and how the remnants of those decisions are still present today.

October 12, 2020
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  • Stephen Fowler
The wraps come off the marker for the "Girls Of The Leesburg Stockade" in Lee County in September.

New Historical Marker For Girls Illegally Jailed During Civil Rights Era

Until recently, you could have probably ridden by the Leesburg Stockade in southwest Georgia without noticing it or having any clue about the civil...

October 18, 2019
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  • Grant Blankenship
Model wears a creation as part of the Gucci women's Fall/Winter 2018-2019 collection

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Could Georgia End Up With Its Own Blackface Scandal?

In 1832, playwright and peformer Thomas Dartmouth Rice used theatrical make-up to create a supposedly black character. The character's name was Jim Crow...

February 19, 2019
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By:
  • La'Raven Taylor and
  • Virginia Prescott

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  • Author Interviews

Grammy Winner Tena Clark's 'Southern Discomfort' Describes Life In Jim Crow Era Mississippi

Tena Clark, the Grammy-winning music producer and songwriter, is at the Savannah Book Festival with her new memoir "Southern Discomfort." In it, she...

February 15, 2019
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By:
  • Virginia Prescott and
  • Elena Rivera
In a photo from the Shipp Studio Archive, a man and woman sit for their portrait in rural Tennessee.

In Jim Crow South, Tennessee Photographer Captured 'A Community In Black & White'

The Bitter Southerner recently published its first hardcover book. "A Community in Black & White: A Most Unusual Photo Album of One Southern...

December 07, 2018
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By:
  • Leighton Rowell and
  • Virginia Prescott
Tena Clark is the author of a new memoir entitled "Southern Discomfort."

Grammy Winner Tena Clark's New Memoir Describes Life In Jim Crow Era Mississippi

Atlanta-based Tena Clark is a music producer, songwriter, Grammy winner and now memoirist. She chronicles her childhood in rural Mississippi in the new...

October 25, 2018
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  • Virginia Prescott and
  • Elena Rivera
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