A judge in Sandy Springs, Ga. last week sentenced a sanitation worker to 30 days behind bars for, well, starting work too early, according to…

Fulton County officials in Georgia are investigating a shooting that left a 22-year veteran officer dead late Tuesday night. The officer was shot during an…

Alton Walter (pictured), a Richmond County Georgia Sheriff’s deputy is facing felony charges of false imprisonment and cruelty to children in the first degree for…

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Attorneys for a mentally challenged man sentenced to death for killing a sheriff deputy argue that he received poor defense from his previous lawyer, who was…

State Rep. Tyrone Brooks, D-Atlanta (pictured), is proposing that the state of Georgia adopt a resolution that formally apologizes for the unjust institution of slavery as…

An unidentified Newton County, Ga., high school teacher was mandated by the district to remain home as an Ebola precautionary measure, upon learning from a…

On an episode of ‘Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates Jr.,’ Angela Bassett was able to learn some of her background history and  more about her family tree. According to PBS, Bassett’s roots can be traced all the back to slavery and they revealed to her more information of the slave owners of her ancestors […]

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The 1946 lynching of two Black sharecropper couples by a vicious White mob has haunted Georgia residents for nearly seven decades. Known as the “Lynching…

Although it seemed as though Porsha Williams would never recover from her difficult divorce from former NFL player Kordell Stewart, she found a way to…

Dalisha Barnett (pictured) enrolled at  Pro Way Hair School, but when she refused to remove her religious headwear and not conform to their requested standards,…

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We reported earlier on the five-year-old North Carolina girl who saved her 90-year-old babysitter. Here’s another hero kid: a four-year-old Georgia boy, who helped his mother…

ATLANTA – As I walked the streets of Georgia last week, I was thinking about guns. Sporting a wide smile, Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal, a…