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Between 1979 and 1981 a killer terrorized Atlanta, till Wayne B. Williams was convicted for several of these killings. Examining law enforcment and legal detail
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Over twenty-two months in 1979 and 1981 nearly two dozen children were unspeakably murdered in Atlanta despite national attention and outcry; they were all Blac
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An insider’s account of the infamous Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal that scapegoated black employees for problems rooted in the education reform move
The Legend of the Black Mecca
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For more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and music, earning it the nickn