ATLANTA (AP) — For the Braves, abandoning downtown Atlanta for the suburbs means moving closer to the team's fan base and developing money-making restaurants...
ATLANTA (AP) - Former Pittsburgh Steeler standout Kordell Stewart's divorce from his reality show wife is final.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge John J. Goger...
PHILADELPHIA (NNPA)--Take a walk through a low-income minority neighborhood in the city of Philadelphia on any given weekday and you’re sure to notice the...
Well the girls are back. Real Housewives of ATL season 6 premiered Nov. 3 at 8 p.m. EST on Bravo. The Real Housewives franchise brings back the Georgia peaches for a sixth season minus Kim Zolciak – Biermann who has moved on from the series with a new husband, more children and a spin-off. Don’t worry there’s still going to be enough drama to go around with Nene Leakes, Cynthia Bailey, Kandi Burruss, Phaedra Parks, Porsha Stewart and former Miss USA Kenya Moore creating mayhem in Hotlanta.
Sheila Stewart at a June, 2013 event honoring her 25 years of excellence in radio broadcasting. (AFRO File Photo/Rob Roberts)
by Avis Thomas-Lester
AFRO Executive Editor
(Updated...
by Kenya King A one-way ticket to anywhere in the U.S. after Hurricane Katrina brought a vast number of displaced New Orleanians to the hotbed of the South – Atlanta – where Black political power precipitates African-American entrepreneurship, and where a cultural melting pot begets the crux of artistic expression from Mozart to hip-hop. Even since the 1970s, and still today, Atlanta has been Christened as the Black Mecca and for many and is a city where African Americans are believed to have the best opportunities for prosperity or for reinventing themselves. Fifty years after of the March on Washington and the “I Have a Dream” speech, what has Black Atlanta achieved, and is it still a place for African Americans to thrive?
