(APN) DECATUR — On Saturday, May 02, 2015, a symbolic funeral procession, for Black people killed by police, started in Atlanta’s West End neighborhood, wound through downtown Atlanta, and ended nine miles later at Oakhurst Baptist Church in Decatur. The procession was led by one hundred bicycle riders, a black hearse with a Rest in Power banner on the […]
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(APN) DECATUR — On Wednesday night, March 11, 2015, approximately two hundred people marched through the streets of Decatur and held sit-ins stopping traffic, as they protested the killing of Anthony Hill. For the second time in less than eleven weeks, DeKalb police have shot and killed another innocent Black man This time, they shot a naked, unarmed veteran […]
Read morePhotograph by Steve Eberhardt (APN) ATLANTA — On Saturday, December 20, 2014, five days before Christmas, thirteen activists blocked the intersection at Lenox Road and Peachtree Street during heavy holiday traffic going to Lenox Mall and Phipps Plaza to shop. They shut down shopping as usual for ninety minutes to bring media attention to the increasing number of black […]
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