The Independent employs journalists from around the world to bring you truly independent journalism. To support us, consider a contribution. Atlanta, Georgia faces renewed calls for the removal of the Stone Mountain Confederate Monument after activists voiced outrage at the monument’s planned reopening on Independence Day weekend. The nine-story-high bas-relief …
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FORT BEND COUNTY – A Fort Bend County man is one of the possibly thousands of Texans caught in the limbo of unemployment. Some residents, who worked out of state before COVID-19, are struggling to apply for unemployment insurance in the state where they were employed. “I have exhausted all …
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ATLANTA (Reuters) – Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial, a nine-story-high bas-relief sculpture carved out of a sprawling rock northeast of Atlanta, is perhaps the most daring monument in the south to its legacy of slavery still intact. FILE PHOTO: A man speaks into a megaphone while pointing at the granite-carved Confederate …
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(Newser) – Although the number of passengers dropped dramatically during the pandemic, there were long lines at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Wednesday after a TSA analyzer tested positive for COVID-19. The main security checkpoint at the airport was closed for a biohazard cleanup and travelers were directed to a …
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Hawks coach Lloyd Pierce said the project grew out of the organization’s desire to “take care of the home.”Photo: Getty (fake pictures) There has never been a major city in the United States that has enjoyed more time as America’s “Black Mecca” than Atlanta. More than 40 years have passed …
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