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People in State Capitol qualifying to run for office

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Trump factor to be tested as hopefuls qualify to run for Georgia’s top elected posts

Candidates have until noon Friday to qualify to run, but the first day saw big crowds at the Capitol, where Democrats and Republicans queued up to fill out their paperwork in separate rooms.

March 08, 2022
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By:
  • Jill Nolin and
  • Ross Williams
Lincoln County, Ga. is in the national spotlight for a now-delayed proposal to close most of its polling places.

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Battleground: Ballot Box | The complicated story of Lincoln County's proposed poll closure

On this week's episode, we take a deeper look at a story reported with the Center for Public Integrity and NPR about what Lincoln County can tell us about the present — and future — of the fight for voting rights.

February 02, 2022
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, Germany, commemorating Jewish victims of the Holocaust.

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Political Rewind: Lessons For U.S. From Nations That Confront Atrocities With Reflection, Education

Wednesday on Political Rewind: Georgia Republicans have joined the chorus of GOP voices demanding that schools stop teaching so-called critical race theory. But slavery did exist … and so did lynching, Jim Crow laws and often violent measures employed to stop black people from voting. What are the consequences of downplaying or ignoring our past?

June 30, 2021
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By:
  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Emilia Brock ,
  • and 1 more
Left to right: Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson are carved into the side of Stone Mountain.

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Political Rewind: Stone Mountain Board Revisits Park's Take On History; Another Ga. Ballot Recount

Today on Political Rewind: The board that oversees Stone Mountain Park meets today to hear proposals for how to reshape the story that for decades has celebrated the “Lost Cause” of the south. Also, a Superior Court judge has ordered yet another recount of 2020 presidential ballots in Fulton County.

May 24, 2021
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Emilia Brock ,
  • and 1 more
An aerial view of the AIDs quilt in Washington, D.C.

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Strained Mother-Son Connections In AIDS Epidemic On Stage In New Horizon Theatre Play

In "Love, M.," the joyful, complicated, intimate long-distance connections shared by mothers and sons during the AIDS epidemic are front and center. Playwright Clarinda Ross says the letters and voicemails in the play mirror the state of our own connections in the COVID-19 pandemic.

December 01, 2020
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  • Leah Fleming
A free food refrigerator in New York City organized by volunteers with the volunteer collective A New World In Our Hearts.

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Freedge Movement: Grassroots Efforts Fight Food Insecurity With Free Refrigerators

An ad hoc network of activists and anarchists from New York to L.A. are setting up the food refrigerators to help address neighborhoods in need, a problem that's grown more acute during the pandemic.

September 29, 2020
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  • Eric Westervelt

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