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GPB Morning Headlines for June 21, 2021

In this morning's headlines, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is awarding a half-million dollar grant to help reduce vaccine hesitancy in the city of Clarkston. 

Officials at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany in southwest Georgia report they are caring for under 10 COVID patients. 

 

June 21, 2021
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  • GPB News Radio
Vice President Kamala Harris addresses a crowd of students at Clark Atlanta University as part of a push for more Americans to get vaccinated.

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Vice President Harris Visits Atlanta To Support Vaccination Push

Vice President Kamala Harris was in Atlanta on Friday, June 18, 2021, encouraging people to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

June 18, 2021
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  • Sarah Rose
People protesting outside the Georgia Department of Labor

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Unemployed Georgians Facing Cutoff In Federal Benefits

Georgia is about to join 25 other mostly Republican-led states in cutting off supplemental federal unemployment benefits before the Biden administration ends the program in September.

June 18, 2021
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  • Dave Williams
A Healthcare worker closes a plastic bag containing a coronavirus test kit

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GPB Evening Headlines for June 18, 2021

Vice President Kamala Harris is visiting Atlanta today to encourage more Georgians to get vaccinated.

Governor Kemp met with Latin American Association members Thursday to address barriers to coronavirus vaccinations. 

And the Georgia community once at the heart of the world’s first COVID-19 hotspots is celebrating a milestone. 

June 18, 2021
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  • GPB News Radio
TRUE BELIEVERS: Former president Trump has succeeded in convincing millions of Americans that the election was stolen from him through fraud. Some have threatened or carried out violence in his name, as when a Trump-inspired mob stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. REUTERS/Chris Aluka Berry

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Georgia Today: Behind Relentless Death Threats Against Raffenspergers, Georgia Election Officials

Imagine receiving anonymous text messages telling you your family will be killed. That’s exactly what happened to Tricia Raffensperger, wife of Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. This and other threatening messages first came to light after new reporting into the harassment many elections officials have lived with since Donald Trump lost Georgia in November. The investigation by news outlet Reuters reveals the scope of Trump supporters’ months of menacing tactics and never-before-seen texts, voicemails and emails directed at elections officials across the state.

June 18, 2021
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  • Steve Fennessy and
  • Jess Mador
Slave Voyage

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Website Gives a More Revealing Look at Transatlantic Slave Trade

Many Americans will acknowledge Juneteenth, the day in 1865 when the last of enslaved African Americans were finally freed in Galveston, Texas, on June 19.

June 18, 2021
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  • Leah Fleming and
  • Tiffany Griffith
LGBTQ advocates outside the Supreme Court in 2019

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Supreme Court Sides With Catholic Agency in LGBTQ Foster Care Debate

Though this case is not set to have an immediate impact on couples looking to adopt a child in Georgia, it highlights the push and pull between elements of the state government eager to push religious liberty legislation and local governments seeking to enshrine LGBTQ protections in local ordinance.

June 18, 2021
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  • GPB Newsroom
Robyn Crittenden

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Kemp Names First Black Women To Lead State Revenue, Technology Agencies

Gov. Brian Kemp appointed two Black women Thursday to head Georgia’s revenue and technology agencies, the first to hold those posts in the state’s history.

June 18, 2021
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  • Dave Williams
People take part in a worship service during the annual Southern Baptist Convention meeting Tuesday, June 15, 2021, in Nashville, Tenn.

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Political Rewind: The Southern Baptist Convention's Political Tides; VP Harris Visits Georgia

Friday on Political Rewind: Deep political and theological divides among leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention are on vivid display during the SBC’s annual meeting in Nashville this week. Also, for the third time the Supreme Court has turned back an effort to end Obamacare in a lawsuit brought by Georgia’s Chris Carr and other GOP state attorneys general. Is the Affordable Care Act finally finished as a wedge political issue?

June 18, 2021
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Emilia Brock ,
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GPB Morning Headlines for June 18, 2021

In this morning's headlines, flags are at half staff in Holy Springs to honor the life of a police officer killed in the line of duty.

A new report finds that if Georgia Power wants to meet the Biden administration’s clean energy goals, the utility needs to act quickly.

June 18, 2021
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  • GPB News Radio
Dr. Brian Blake GSU

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GPB Evening Headlines for June 17, 2021

Georgia State University's next president is making history, as the first African American in that role in more than 110 years.

The current farm bill includes $80 million in scholarship money to be shared throughout the country’s historically Black land grant colleges. 

Otis Redding, Outkast and Usher are among a long list of musical artists to be the first inductees of a newly approved Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame, set to be installed in front of Mercedes-Benz Stadium this summer.

June 17, 2021
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  • GPB News Radio
Polk County will soon have a third solar farm in operation

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Report Finds 100% Renewable Energy Feasible In Georgia

The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy has mapped out ways for Georgia Power's parent company to switch to renewable energy by 2035.

June 17, 2021
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  • Emily Jones
The last day to request an absentee ballot in Georgia’s Jan. 5 U.S. Senate runoff is Jan. 1.

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Fact Check: Fulton County Is Not Missing Ballots Or Hundreds Of Drop Box Custody Forms

A pair of reports posted by pro-Trump media outlets falsely claim Fulton County is missing documentation and ballots from November's election, the latest attacks on Georgia's voting process by those who refuse to accept the results.

June 17, 2021
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  • Stephen Fowler
Biden Juneteenth ceremony

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Amending 'America's Original Sin': Biden Signs Juneteenth Into Law As Federal Holiday

President Joe Biden signed a bill Thursday afternoon that establishes Juneteenth, the date that marked the end of slavery, as a federal holiday.

June 17, 2021
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  • Riley Bunch
Dr. Brian Blake

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Georgia State Names First Black President In School History

Dr. M. Brian Blake will become Georgia State University’s first Black president in the school’s 100-year history. Announced as the sole finalist last week, the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia will have a chance to take action on the appointment at their meeting Friday.

June 17, 2021
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  • Madeline Thigpen
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