(APN) ATLANTA — On Wednesday, August 26, 2015, approximately a dozen activists from the international #SupportIranDeal Coalition delivered a letter to the office of U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), asking him to support the controversial Iran Deal, a multilateral proposed treaty with Iran, which is currently before U.S. Congress. “We are here today as your constituents… asking you to […]
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Photograph courtesy of Joyce Dorsey. (APN) ATLANTA — August 06, 2015 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the day the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon Johnson. However, as Atlanta advocates gathered at Wheat Street Baptist Church to commemorate, it was not solely a celebratory occasion, given that the Supreme Court of […]
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(APN) ATLANTA — Atlanta’s only independent, non-profit community radio station is again in danger of leaving the airwaves. For over forty years, Radio Free Georgia, WRFG 89.3 FM, has lifted up marginalized voices through public affairs, news, and music programming that now reaches thirteen Metro Atlanta counties from its station in Atlanta’s Little Five Points Community Center. Now […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — What Atlanta police suspect to be a dangerous and sick predator has killed two vulnerable homeless men, under the cover of darkness, while they slept outside in the downtown Atlanta area. Two murders a few days apart and two miles apart has homeless people living in fear. The first victim, Dorian Jenkins, was shot numerous times while […]
Read moreWith additional reporting by Matthew Charles Cardinale (APN) ATLANTA — On October 10, 2014, Atlanta Progressive News submitted an open records request to Secretary of State (SOS) Brian Kemp’s office seeking copies of all complaints received by the SOS regarding the New Georgia Project (NGP) from all Georgia counties during 2014. However, the SOS office sent APN only one complaint […]
Read moreWith additional reporting by Matthew Charles Cardinale, News Editor (APN) ATLANTA — The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a national organization, has filed a lawsuit in Fulton County Superior Court against Secretary of State Brian Kemp and five Georgia counties, regarding more than 40,000 voter registration applications that they say remain unprocessed. They filed the suit on behalf […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — Georgia’s Primary and Non-partisan Elections were held on Tuesday, May 20, 2014. This overview presents the results in statewide, U.S. House, and Fulton County Commission primary races; and non-partisan judicial races. Georgia election results according to the Secretary of State’s office as of May 21, 2014 at 4:20 PM. Registered voters 5,040,952; ballots cast 984.419 and turnout […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — As part of our coverage of the upcoming July 31, 2012, Partisan Primary and Non-partisan General Election, Atlanta Progressive News requested interviews with incumbent US Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) and Michael Johnson, the two candidates for the Democratic nomination for Georgia’s 5th US Congressional District. Johnson participated in an interview; his positions will be summarized again […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — The Board of Directors of the Atlanta Progressive News has issued the following endorsements in our first round of endorsements for this 2012 election cycle. We are endorsing in four State House races (HD 53, HD 56, HD 57, HD 58), where we sent detailed questionnaires to nine candidates, receiving responses from all nine with the exception […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — Former Fulton County Superior Court Judge Michael Johnson is challenging US Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) in the Democratic Primary this year for the fifth Congressional District of Georgia. In 2010, Lewis faced no opposition except Fenn Little, a Republican, in the General Election. In 2008, Lewis faced State Rep. “Able” Mable Thomas and activist Markel Hutchins in […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — The State of Georgia is set to receive an additional disbursement of funding for the low-income energy assistance program, LIHEAP, now that US Congress has decided on a final budget for FY 2012. The US Department of Health and Human Services is releasing 845 million dollars in addition LIHEAP funding to the states, in addition to […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — US Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioners Michael J. Copps and Mignon Clyburn, hosted a forum at Georgia Tech on Information Needs of Atlanta, on December 01, 2011. About two hundred people including a dozen from Occupy Atlanta came to hear the Commissioners and the panelists discuss the state of Atlanta’s media and […]
Read moreAn earlier version of this article first appeared on Inter-Press Service’s website at: http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=105207 ATLANTA, Georgia, Sep 22, 2011 (IPS) – The U.S. state of Georgia executed Troy Davis at 11:08 p.m. on Wednesday, Sep. 21, despite serious doubts about his guilt that inspired mass protests in Georgia, across the United States, and indeed, around the world. Davis had been […]
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