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African Americans for Hillary Clinton Event disrupted by Song, Chants of “Black Lives Matter”

October 31, 2015 GLORIA TATUM Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — On yesterday, Friday, October 30, 2015, thousands gathered at Clark Atlanta University’s Epps Gymnasium to hear Presidential candidate, and former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton speak, as she rolled out her African Americans for Hillary campaign at the historic Black college. Clinton took the stage and acknowledged and thanked prominent Civil Rights Movement leaders from the […]

National Conference on Mass Incarceration Held in Atlanta

February 12, 2015 GLORIA TATUM Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — A national conference sponsored by the Stop Mass Incarceration Network was held February 07 and 08, 2015 at the Interdenominational Theological Center at Atlanta University. A wide variety of people, approximately two hundred, from California to New York, attended. They came to Atlanta to prepare for a nationwide day of resistance, on April 14, 2015, to […]

Atlanta Student Movement Historical Trail to be Unveiled with Interactive Markers

October 31, 2014 GLORIA TATUM Leave a comment

APN) ATLANTA — Fifteen historical interactive markers are currently being erected around the Atlanta University Center to memorialize the student movement that sparked the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta back in 1960. At unveiling is to take place on tomorrow, Saturday, November 01, 2014. On June 07, 2010, a Commission was created to identify locations where these historical actions took […]

Clark Atlanta Objects to Morris Brown College Land Sale (UPDATE 1)

June 1, 2014 MATTHEW CHARLES Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — Clark Atlanta University (CAU) is objecting to a proposed sale of a large portion of Morris Brown College’s campus–a proposed sale of all but three buildings–in bankruptcy proceedings, to the Atlanta Development Authority (nicknamed Invest Atlanta) and Friendship Baptist Church. The University points to documents, obtained by Atlanta Progressive News, that show that when the […]