All posts tagged "georgia"
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NEWS
Dozens Of Black Senior Citizens Ordered Off Bus Taking Them To First Day Of Georgia Early Voting
October 16, 2018A group of 40 black senior citizens in rural Georgia were ordered to get off a...
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NEWS
Savannah Police On The Hunt For Person Who Put Googly Eyes On Historic Statue In Savannah
October 13, 2018The Savannah Police Department is searching for the suspect who defaced a historic statue with googly...
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NEWS
Georgia’s GOP Secretary Of State Is Preventing Thousands Of Black Residents From Registering To Vote (He Is Also Running For Governor)
October 10, 2018The office of Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, who is running as a Republican candidate...
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NEWS
As Neo-Nazis Burned Swastikas In Georgia Saturday, Police Arrested Counter-Protesters For Wearing Masks
April 22, 2018A heavily militarized police force of some 400 officers stood watch outside a small neo-Nazi rally...
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NEWS
Georgia’s GOP-Controlled Legislature Passes Bill Punishing Delta For Cutting Ties With NRA
March 1, 2018Lawmakers in Georgia’s GOP-controlled legislature approved a bill stripping Atlanta-based Delta Airlines of a $38 million...
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NEWS
Social Studies Teacher Fired Gun While Barricaded Inside Georgia High School Classroom, Police Say
February 28, 2018A social studies teacher in Dalton, Georgia, was arrested after he barricaded himself in his classroom...
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NEWS
Georgia High School Teacher Taken Into Custody After Reports Of Shots Fired At School
February 28, 2018Georgia police say officers responding to reports of shots fired at a high school and a...
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DEMOCRACY
Georgia Senate Passes Anti-LGBTQ ‘Religious Liberty’ Adoption And Foster Care Bill
February 26, 2018The Georgia Senate has passed a bill allowing adoption agencies that receive taxpayer funding to refuse...
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NEWS
Democrats Flip Republican Seat In Georgia, Break GOP’s Supermajority In The State Senate
December 6, 2017Democrats in Georgia broke the Republican Party’s two-thirds supermajority in the state Senate after Democratic candidate...
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JUSTICE
Officer Who Told White Driver ‘We Only Kill Black People’ Will Be Fired
September 1, 2017Lt. Greg Abbott, the Georgia police officer who was captured on video reassuring a white female driver...
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Authoritarianism
GOP Lawmaker Warns Black Attorney She ‘May Go Missing’ If She Tries To Remove Confederate Monuments
August 30, 2017A Republican member of the Georgia House of Representatives warned a Democratic former colleague who criticized...
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DEMOCRACY
Handel And Ossoff Tied With One Week To Go Before Georgia Special Election: New Poll
June 13, 2017With one week to go in the nation’s most expensive congressional election in history, Karen Handel...
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DEMOCRACY
Majority In Georgia 6th Have Unfavorable View Of GOP Healthcare Bill: Poll
June 13, 2017A majority of likely voters in Georgia’s sixth congressional district hold an unfavorable impression of the...
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Campaign Finance
Rising Dem Star Jon Ossoff Sets New Fundraising Record Of $23M In Georgia Race, Gaining Momentum
June 8, 2017Democratic congressional candidate Jon Ossoff raised a total of $23 million in Georgia’s highly contested House...