The Klan My Experience: Atlanta and the Klan
After the 2000/11 disaster in New York, George W. Bush said he was going after terrorists, and my first thought was “Good, he’s going after…
Torpy at Large: Et tu, Kasim? Then rise, Ceasar! Reed’s hostility may help mayoral candidate Mitchell
Eight years ago, civil rights icon and former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young asked then-City Councilman Ceasar Mitchell not to run for mayor. “I told him…
“I AM 2018” CAMPAIGN TO MARK 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF SANITATION STRIKE
“I AM 2018” CAMPAIGN TO MARK 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF SANITATION STRIKE IN MEMPHIS AND THE ASSASSINATION OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. AFSCME and COGIC …
Peter Aman Calls for Removal and Replacement of City’s Confederate Symbols; Other Mayoral Candidates Hedge
By Maynard Eaton It was a gutsy political gambit and a potential game changer. Peter Aman, a City Hall veteran and political novice, kicked off…
The Myth of the Kindly General Lee
The strangest part about the continued personality cult of Robert E. Lee is how few of the qualities his admirers profess to see in him…
Defiant, Trump Laments Assault on Culture and Revives a Bogus Pershing Story
WASHINGTON — Despite ongoing rebukes over his defense of white supremacists, President Trump defiantly returned to his campaign’s nativist themes on Thursday. He lamented an…