This is Georgia’s best place to work, according to new ranking

“The best companies to work for jobs are often in career fields like technology, oil and gas, law, and health care. It is no coincidence that jobs in these fields tend to pay relatively high wages,” the website wrote. “Successful companies in these sectors can have annual revenues in the billions, which allows the businesses to pay highly sought-after workers top dollar and to provide them great benefits as well.”

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Corporate law firm King & Spalding came out on top in Georgia, in large part because of employees’ high salaries. The average worker takes home more than $122,000 per year. The company also has a fairly diverse workforce — 54.5% of workers are women, and nearly half are ethnic minorities, earning the company a 9.8/10 diversity score from Zippia.

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All of my cousins had them and so did I, even when I didn’t really realize how common they were.”},{“_id”:”UAV72KDQ5RB57JQOQT5E2SZJVE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613198496188},”type”:”text”,”content”:”So common that I vividly remember asking my mother every time I went to the barbershop if I was getting a “haircut” or an “edge-up.””},{“_id”:”4JMMBQTBSFAU5IIJJ4QQF2JWTU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613198496189},”type”:”text”,”content”:”I was always pleased when the answer was “edge-up,” which meant I would get to keep my glorious Afro.”},{“owner”:{“sponsored”:false,”id”:”ajc”},”address”:{},”syndication”:{},”caption”:”Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Ernie Suggs in front of a Brooklyn brownstone circa 1973, when he would have been about 6 years old. 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“,”_id”:”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8ffzI2czHs”,”additional_properties”:{“comments”:[],”_id”:1614092406288},”provider_name”:”YouTube”,”height”:340},”type”:”oembed_response”},{“_id”:”JJU6PNA2RJAITEL74BENX3ED6I”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613198496194},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Richard Pryor, whose Afro became a symbol of rage, while Julius Erving’s became a symbol of grace;”},{“_id”:”G6KZZEEMPRF2HHVZXO3RBWFFRI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613198496195},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Pam Grier, whose Afro was so big and bad that she could hide a gun in it to kill “The Man”;”},{“_id”:”CM6X2FFXBVEITGE2Y4EG2HHWTI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613198496197},”type”:”text”,”content”:”And my favorite group, the Jackson 5, who sported Afros atop their perfectly round heads.”},{“_id”:”47SWRQP7OZBPJNJ5JIJSPKFJP4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613198496192},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Black Power became “Black Is Beautiful.””},{“owner”:{“sponsored”:false,”id”:”ajc”},”address”:{},”syndication”:{},”caption”:”Afros were common in the 1970s: comedian Richard Pryor in 1977; Pam Grier in the 1974 film “Foxy Brown”; Esther Rolle as Florida Evans in “Good Times,” which premiered in 1974; and Julius “Dr. J” Erving when he briefly played for the Atlanta Hawks in 1972 (his hair was accented for publication in this photo). 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We couldn’t afford the fancy threads, but we could grow their Afros.”},{“_id”:”RBBICWGK4NEHNA2NVGRIEFES6A”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613198496201},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Tito and his brothers were just emulating adults who had migrated from “processing,” or using chemicals or a heated comb to straighten hair.”},{“owner”:{“sponsored”:false,”id”:”ajc”},”address”:{“locality”:”LOS ANGELES”},”syndication”:{},”caption”:”The Jackson 5, wearing their iconic Afros in an undated promotional image: in front, Marlon and Michael; in back: Tito, Jackie and Jermaine. “There is nothing wrong with wearing a natural, man. 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We wanted to be a part of that.””},{“_id”:”RAOBFLAJ3NCLBM7EQZDURVMEGU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613673634299},”type”:”text”,”content”:”But my biggest influence was right at home. My mom.”},{“level”:1,”_id”:”GC2BT4XBG5DFZI7GIMXQMVM3N4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:”FLE3O5VBWVHABDYZTSJUXWIWYM”},”type”:”header”,”content”:”Brooklyn and the Politics of Respectability”},{“_id”:”AWVYPPTTPZCNJBVSL6WM2XYD6U”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613198496205},”type”:”text”,”content”:”As long as I can remember, my mother always wore her hair natural, and usually opted for a short Afro that she went to the barbershop to maintain. As a kid, I didn’t really understand it, especially when other mothers wore chemically straightened perms.”},{“_id”:”C4GUMACGVBHQ5LCJ5O7PGEWMUA”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613198496206},”type”:”text”,”content”:”But as I got older, it started to make sense.”},{“_id”:”TDULR5GXZBBBTMS4ETUJXWKOBU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613198496207},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Thelma Suggs arrived in New York City from Rocky Mount, North Carolina, in the mid-1960s, escaping the oppression of the South and landing in the city just as Black people were starting to assert themselves politically.”},{“owner”:{“sponsored”:false,”id”:”ajc”},”address”:{},”syndication”:{},”caption”:”Thelma Suggs and her youngest son, Eric Suggs, in front of their Brooklyn apartment around 1974. 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And to not scare them,” said Noliwe Rooks, a professor of Africana Studies at Cornell University and author of the book “Hair Raising: Beauty, Culture and African American Women.” “Always put on (nice) clothes. Always be well-groomed. Especially in the South. 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They didn’t believe in King’s way anymore, which they called too accommodating. They believed in taking what they wanted through Black Power. And with it came the Afro.”},{“_id”:”O2ZFKIMYIFELZAZLEKAGBUAWVY”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613198496221},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Organizations like the Black Panthers, a nationalist group founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale — who each wore towering Afros — helped give the style its political weight.”},{“_id”:”F5ZKJOIXFNFXRE5IUPXD7CGRV4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613198496223},”type”:”text”,”content”:”The Afro was not tolerant and compromising. A form of beauty that did not require white validation like a perm or conk. It was anti-establishment. 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Angela Davis. Maya Angelou. Minnie Riperton. Aretha Franklin.”},{“owner”:{“sponsored”:false,”id”:”ajc”},”address”:{},”syndication”:{},”caption”:”Iconic Afros from women in the 1970s: activist Angela Davis, seen here in 1972 after being released on bail; poet Maya Angelou in 1980; Minnie Riperton, from her 1974 “Perfect Angel” album; and Aretha Franklin, seen here in 1972. 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In barbershop vernacular, “A Number One.””},{“_id”:”32O7MJ4BFFBSXFO2OVPKAXB5QA”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613198496228},”type”:”text”,”content”:”That is how I walked onto the campus of North Carolina Central University in the fall of 1985.”},{“_id”:”E67EPMWHNNBALBDKV6YBMU7MVM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613515647978},”type”:”text”,”content”:”But my classmates from places like New York, D.C. and Philadelphia were on some other stuff.”},{“_id”:”SWS54IAR6BDRLEC4OHSMWKDZIY”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613198496232},”type”:”text”,”content”:”It was the Reagan Era and rap music had replaced soul music, at least for our generation. Hi-top fades, shaved heads and even Jheri curls came with it.”},{“_id”:”LH7JJUOXK5EK7CC6XL2ZO3NQGQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613586246799},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Who wanted to look like Peabo Bryson when you could look like Big Daddy Kane? Besides, Tito’s brother, Michael, wasn’t even wearing an Afro anymore.”},{“_id”:”WIJVRY3PZJBMLB5PCR5GJ4U4AQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613198496233},”type”:”text”,”content”:”But there were some holdovers from the previous decade. Like Jesse Jackson. The first time I met Rev. Jackson was in 1988 when he brought his Democratic presidential campaign to campus. After King’s death in 1968, Jackson’s hair grew into iconic status. Twenty years later, shorter, but still magnificent.”},{“_id”:”ZMR5DCSZGZDOFJAB7TT7GX3IJA”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613198496234},”type”:”text”,”content”:”After Jackson’s speech that afternoon, I presented him with an NCCU jacket. He handed me his jacket as he put on his new one. Then he raised my hand with his as my schoolmates chanted “Win, Jesse, Win.””},{“owner”:{“sponsored”:false,”id”:”ajc”},”address”:{},”syndication”:{},”caption”:”In 1988, Jesse Jackson brought his presidential campaign and his Afro to the campus of North Carolina Central University. Here, he is presented a school jacket by campus newspaper editor Ernie Suggs and Miss NCCU Sonya Laws. 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A 1990 graduate of N.C. Central University and a 2009 Harvard University Nieman Fellow, he is also the former vice president of the National Association of Black Journalists. His obsession with Prince, Spike Lee movies, Hamilton and the New York Yankees is odd.”,”_id”:”ernie-suggs”,”additional_properties”:{“original”:{“lastName”:”Suggs”,”role”:”Enterprise reporter”,”education”:[{“name”:”North Carolina Central University, English Lit ’90”},{“name”:”Harvard University, Nieman Foundation ’09”}],”affiliations”:”The Atlanta Journal-Constitution”,”bio”:”Ernie Suggs is an enterprise reporter covering race and culture for the AJC since 1997. A 1990 graduate of N.C. Central University and a 2009 Harvard University Nieman Fellow, he is also the former vice president of the National Association of Black Journalists. 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A 1990 graduate of North Carolina Central University, with a degree in English Literature, Suggs was also a 2009 Harvard University Nieman Fellow. He is currently on the Nieman Foundation’s Board of Trustees and the former national vice president of the National Association of Black Journalists. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Rocky Mount, N.C., his obsession for Prince, Spike Lee movies, Hamilton and the New York Yankees is unmatched.”,”org”:”ajc”,”facebook”:”https://www.facebook.com/ajcsepia”,”author_type”:”Staff”,”firstName”:”Ernie”,”books”:[],”podcasts”:[],”awards”:[],”custom_ajc_phone”:”404-526-5672″,”_id”:”ernie-suggs”,”status”:true}},”type”:”author”,”version”:”0.5.8″,”url”:”/staff/ernie-suggs/”}]},”subtitle”:”Jesse Jackson”,”width”:4032,”_id”:”HHUAKL3FZNGOPIZZYLDBZ2NE3E”,”additional_properties”:{“fullSizeResizeUrl”:”/photo/resize/trOFn37rR7hMtltoSderyXVZ–Q=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/HHUAKL3FZNGOPIZZYLDBZ2NE3E.JPG”,”owner”:”ernie.suggs@ajc.com”,”comments”:[],”keywords”:[“”],”proxyUrl”:”/photo/resize/trOFn37rR7hMtltoSderyXVZ–Q=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/HHUAKL3FZNGOPIZZYLDBZ2NE3E.JPG”,”takenOn”:”2021-02-15T21:14:52Z”,”originalUrl”:”https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/HHUAKL3FZNGOPIZZYLDBZ2NE3E.JPG”,”published”:true,”resizeUrl”:”https://thumbor-prod-us-east-1.photo.aws.arc.pub/trOFn37rR7hMtltoSderyXVZ–Q=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/HHUAKL3FZNGOPIZZYLDBZ2NE3E.JPG”,”ingestionMethod”:”manual”,”thumbnailResizeUrl”:”/resizer/uyAqWOY2CKbeOZyQduz2ci2tETs=/300×0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/HHUAKL3FZNGOPIZZYLDBZ2NE3E.JPG”,”version”:0,”originalName”:”IMG_2626.JPG”,”mime_type”:”image/jpeg”,”restricted”:false,”template_id”:594,”galleries”:[],”_id”:”HUGTZBJVC5CCDBER5EZG7XETDU”},”created_date”:”2021-02-16T16:14:25Z”,”last_updated_date”:”2021-02-16T16:14:25Z”,”height”:3024,”image_type”:”photograph”},{“_id”:”RKLJAPEYTVERTI2IPQQPNIDR2I”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613198496235},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Jackson didn’t get the party nomination for president in 1988. The Reagan era had neutralized both Jesse and the Afro.”},{“_id”:”AXHWTJKZTRCSFBUSF4UILZJGMM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613198496237},”type”:”text”,”content”:”My reinvention came in the form of a bald or tapered fade. Tight around the ears and back, darker, but short, on top.”},{“_id”:”74T36TBZLRBYDE2DWXD6CHTH5U”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613198496241},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Nothing looked better than a “fresh fade.” And nothing felt better to me than rubbing my palm against the grain to feel that stiff stubble around my neck give way to the smooth hair at the top of my head.”},{“_id”:”54ESKTCQJVFXDBMUZ266K3L5XA”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613198496243},”type”:”text”,”content”:”I guess, before I even knew the term, I was practicing a form of respectability politics. Perhaps not to be labeled an “Angry Black Man.””},{“_id”:”CS5DCCE5OJFU3D6EEFN3DTPJPY”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613515647994},”type”:”text”,”content”:”For a lot of us who grew up in the ’70s, including the first Black man to actually become president, Barack Obama, the Afro was dead.”},{“level”:1,”_id”:”FUTUSM6OSBGD5ANMG3FJDXXFQY”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:”PECCYUDOZNABZA5EZZ7L5GKVXM”},”type”:”header”,”content”:”Good hair, bad words and snapback”},{“_id”:”V3X2JGC5RJBLTIZYEPN772SUCU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613198496256},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Earlier this month, I visited Nekesa Smith at her College Park salon, Nekesa Natural Radiance. A graduate of Spelman College, she specializes in natural hair. Many of her male clients are professional men, generally over 45, who want to grow their hair out and “and do more of a Jay-Z look. Not just that neat shaped Afro, just a little texture.””},{“_id”:”SBMYFAP2ERCBDB7ULY2ZPQXMWA”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613198496258},”type”:”text”,”content”:”I sat down and let Smith run her fingers through my hair. She has been doing hair since she was a child, started her own business in 1999, and I wanted her to give me a consultation.”},{“owner”:{“sponsored”:false,”id”:”ajc”},”copyright”:”2021 Atlanta Journal-Constitution”,”address”:{“locality”:”College Park”,”region”:”GA”},”caption”:”Nekesa Smith, a local stylist and hair expert, talks with AJC reporter Ernie Suggs about his hair and growing an Afro at her shop in College Park on Friday, Feb. 12, 2021. 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I would generally wash my hair every day. Or at least four times a week. Wash and condition. Then, with my trusty pick ― an upright comb with long teeth ― I would pick it out and call it a day. Easy enough.”},{“_id”:”CXXQGGCSRFBBTJJTU365HXUO7Y”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613198496260},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Too easy, Smith says.”},{“_id”:”UGHWIWR6GVCUTCACOA6Y64SURI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613198496261},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Running her fingers through my hair, she tells me that she likes the gray and shoots down my suggestion that I had “good hair.””},{“_id”:”B4UK3MQOKVBPJDKORN7NWYD5XY”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613198496262},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“Good hair is a bad word,” she snaps.”},{“_id”:”DFZHSAQVXVB7HBAY7TMESPTG6I”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613198496263},”type”:”text”,”content”:”She tells me that my hair is a combination of three textures ― generally coily, looser at the top, with tighter curls around the nape of my neck. 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At times, I can pull a strand of hair out at least 6 inches, only to watch it shrink back into my head.”},{“_id”:”DI2CP22IOJGVJEIEDHQIB6B5JY”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613198496269},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Smith pulls out a ruler.”},{“_id”:”27WNVXVA4NGAFH275PWU56YW6U”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613198496270},”type”:”text”,”content”:”My hair is 4 inches on the top, 3 inches on the sides and about 4 1/2 inches in the back.”},{“_id”:”P2TB35U565D7PBHETWTMST2T6Q”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613198496272},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“People think natural hair is just getting up and combing it. People think natural hair is cheaper,” she said. “But it takes work. 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She took my temperature as soon as I walked in, and everyone was wearing masks. But when will I feel comfortable going back to a barbershop? Will I even want to go back?”},{“_id”:”MHGF7KCHOZGPFKW3XIILY2A7W4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613198496280},”type”:”text”,”content”:”I tell her my original plan was to get a haircut after this article ran.”},{“level”:1,”_id”:”TGXADHN55FB7JO6FD7ODRBM7YQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:”JAIGUXPC55AQHP7RPGQT3CLSIU”},”type”:”header”,”content”:”‘Why must you be so Black?’”},{“_id”:”UD7PTUXCMVELJEOH4CMJNPUTQA”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613198496281},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Then I met Aevin Dugas, a 45-year-old social worker from outside of New Orleans who works at her parents’ group home for women with developmental needs. Between 2012 and 2019, she was in the Guinness Book of World Records for having the biggest Afro in the world, measuring about 4 feet 7 inches around.”},{“_id”:”S63MNUBQXFGJTIEQGKCPGXAGI4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613689218319},”type”:”text”,”content”:”In a word, she is stunning.”},{“owner”:{“sponsored”:false,”id”:”ajc”},”address”:{},”syndication”:{},”caption”:”Between 2012 and 2019, Aevin Dugas, a 45-year-old social worker from outside of New Orleans, was in the Guinness Book of World Records for having the biggest Afro in the world, measuring about 4 feet 7 inches around. “When I wear my Afro out, that is when I feel the sexiest,” she said. 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It was freedom and it really got me to love myself,” she tells me. “I love how I felt when I went natural and I didn’t care what anyone thought. When I went natural, I really figured out who I was. When I wear my Afro out, that is when I feel the sexiest.””},{“_id”:”TFVQOTLEAJCGHKYIWIOIEF2OXI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613667754622},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Harkening back to the ’60s and ’70s, people like her mother and Angela Davis might have inspired her, but wearing the Afro is not a form of protest, she says.”},{“_id”:”GOLUG4BSZJB2RDZ2G4GF3PY6HI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613198496290},”type”:”text”,”content”:”She has traveled all over the world to talk about hair and has started her own line of hair care products, Chemhairstry. White people are intrigued by it and most Black people love it.”},{“_id”:”ENJPD4XY2JH3LFJLTTWXTEJQ2U”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613586246866},”type”:”text”,”content”:”But there have been Blacks who are uneasy with it and wonder, “Why must you be so Black?””},{“_id”:”LSIFY42MKFEBPJKCIOGZZAFV6U”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613198496292},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“I got to the point where I didn’t want to make other people comfortable. Our hair has always been an issue,” Dugas said. “You are gonna deal with this hair, whether you like it or not. I am not changing my hair for anyone.””},{“level”:1,”_id”:”7RBXMGA3RFGMVEACHB4DDJEGRE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:”PFPUH2OSSBBSJMNXKYCEZPKPHE”},”type”:”header”,”content”:”Protests and the CROWN”},{“_id”:”GLSB7QJ2O5BJTGLAR4EAAMJD74″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613198496303},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Throughout this process, the first time I really became aware of what my Afro meant in this age was during last summer’s Black Lives Matter protests.”},{“_id”:”NZIWX7XKYJHBDMFMPMAQVO6GSY”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613515648060},”type”:”text”,”content”:”So many of the protesters had embraced their hair as part of the “natural hair movement.” It came in floppy, in twists, braided and in dreadlocks. Lots of volume and texture.”},{“owner”:{“sponsored”:false,”id”:”ajc”},”copyright”:”2020 Atlanta Journal Constitution”,”address”:{},”caption”:”Counterprotesters face off with protesters as several far-right groups, including militias and white supremacists, rally Saturday, Aug. 15, 2020, in the town of Stone Mountain, and a broad coalition of leftist anti-racist groups organized a counter-demonstration. Thereafter local authorities closed Stone Mountain Park. 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These are hairstyles that have been traditionally worn primarily by people of African descent.” Locally, Clayton County passed its own CROWN ordinance this month.”},{“_id”:”ZSUVEOKCCJDSPLVZL64BAOO6NQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613198496305},”type”:”text”,”content”:”The looks of Kathleen Cleaver and Bobby Seale, icons of a bygone era, have been replaced by people who look like Questlove, Colin Kaepernick, Athens-Clarke County Commissioner Mariah Parker and Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott.”},{“owner”:{“sponsored”:false,”id”:”ajc”},”address”:{},”syndication”:{},”caption”:”Afros continue to make a statement: The Roots’ drummer Questlove; former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick; Athens-Clarke County Commissioner Mariah Parker; and Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott. 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But I could certainly relate as these kids marched through downtown Atlanta chanting the names of George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks and Breonna Taylor.”},{“_id”:”MFGH2D26NVES3JBORKD2OZF7RI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613198496309},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“Young people are using their bodies to say we want to fit in on our own terms,” Rooks said. “They are fighting the idea that only a certain kind of hairstyle is acceptable. 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It’s no longer in the family, but it was for generations, and over the generations, it was home to 447 enslaved people. It was at that moment that I really thought, ‘I really need to make something of this.’ I couldn’t just be there and not document it somehow. That was my first project. And I was encouraged to go deeper into that research. I decided to take a trip to Louisiana with my family, and we went exploring through Louisiana and Mississippi, and I came up with the series that’s called, “We Have Made These Lands What They Are: The Architecture of Slavery.” Those are plantations in Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, Virginia in that one.”},{“_id”:”W4Z3XO6MHFA4TGU3NKCGBBQTEA”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613664877680},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Q: What was it like being there in the face of that history on your husband’s ancestral land?”},{“_id”:”7H534MNCOVABXE3MXBVVPZ7T6A”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:153,”comment”:” eye opening.”},{“pos”:251,”comment”:” eye”}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613664877681},”type”:”text”,”content”:”A: We had a brief time there. I couldn’t take any pictures inside, so all the pictures I took were exteriors. A lot were cemeteries. It was eerie. It was eye-opening. It was terrifying. But it gave me an opportunity to really dig deeper and to open my eyes further into the links between times of enslavement and the current time.”},{“_id”:”DJC5P6IQFZCAPBAGPYGS4HDTLA”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613664877682},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Q: What did you know about slavery before, and how did you prepare for this longer journey?”},{“_id”:”DFGUJOR7ZBAITHMO6CRKXLOD6I”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:262,”comment”:” day to day”}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613664877683},”type”:”text”,”content”:”A: I am 61 years old. So, I had my inadequate history in grade schooland in high school. Being a journalist and being exposed to literature, I have maybe a better notion of slavery going in than the average person. But I’ve learned more just about the quotidian, day-to-day abuses, conversations, log keeping, punishment, relationships, just the cellular life on a plantation.”},{“_id”:”RAPGXC7TGBAV3EGJOBWED3ANVI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:166,”comment”:”slave holders.”}],”comments”:[{“date”:”2021-02-23T14:04:04.499Z”,”start”:94,”end”:96,”text”:”Put artwork titles in quotes.”,”user”:”Nicole Smith”,”email”:”Nicole.Smith@ajc.com”}],”_id”:1613664877684},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Q: Your early projects focused on the architecture and land of plantations. The new project, “To Have and To Hold,” focuses on U.S. presidents who were slaveholders. Why this new direction?”},{“_id”:”FOJTCHFABZADNCUXWKNDSVORUU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:71,”comment”:”,”},{“pos”:346,”comment”:” the”},{“pos”:356,”comment”:” titles”},{“pos”:456,”comment”:”that “}],”comments”:[{“date”:”2021-02-23T14:08:17.012Z”,”start”:387,”end”:389,”text”:”Use quotes”,”user”:”Nicole Smith”,”email”:”Nicole.Smith@ajc.com”}],”_id”:1613664877685},”type”:”text”,”content”:”A: I would say it’s a sequel. I didn’t set out to make it presidential; it just so happened that my last field trip was to Charlottesville. I had never been to Monticello. And I had never been to Montpelier, which was where James Madison lived. And I certainly had never been to Barboursville, which was designed by Thomas Jefferson, and which is where the title’s image of “To Have and to Hold” is shot. But I got such rich imagery from all those places, [so] it really dominates this set of prints. And I think it’s important to shed light on our presidents who were slaveholders.”},{“_id”:”6UZYRQIPWRBVBH4AOESU32CXAI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613664877686},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Q: Words play as much of a role in your work as images. Each photograph is accompanied by a quotation from either an enslaved person or the owner of the plantation. Which comes first: the photos or the text?”},{“_id”:”6NC6GERSBNH5VHB5342UUFAZ4Q”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:322,”comment”:” that’s not”},{“pos”:331,”comment”:”,”}],”comments”:[{“date”:”2021-02-23T14:15:09.705Z”,”start”:514,”end”:517,”text”:”Use quotes”,”user”:”Nicole Smith”,”email”:”Nicole.Smith@ajc.com”}],”_id”:1613664877687},”type”:”text”,”content”:”A: I planned trips around the text in some cases. In other cases, especially when I went to Charlottesville, the images came first. Sometimes, you will find on the premises of the plantation itself, somewhere in the gift shop, you will find books or literature that are honest about history. But in other cases, that’s not true, so I’ll have to go to a local historical society. I called the Virginia Historical Society to get the text that is with the Barboursville ruins, which is the title image of “To Have and To Hold.” The words are from a letter, James Barbour, governor of Virginia at the time, bequeathing to his daughter on the occasion of her wedding more than 30 human beings. And their names are listed in that text.”},{“owner”:{“sponsored”:false,”id”:”ajc”},”copyright”:”Vanessa Velez DeGarcia”,”address”:{},”syndication”:{},”caption”:”Photographer Keris Salmon’s new exhibition “To Have and To Hold” is part of her series exploring the legacy of slavery through landscapes, architecture and text. 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I must be a hound dog or something. But I get so much pleasure in researching these stories. But finding out more about these enslaved individuals is very difficult. Enslaved people, for the most part, did not read or write. So there is nothing in their own [handwriting] that is contemporaneous.”},{“_id”:”V45XEK3MARB5FKAZKTZ6CU5PNI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613664877690},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Q: Have you ever found something written by an enslaved person in their own hand?”},{“_id”:”QZ64VYZJNNAYJFLVVU3JMB53I4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:83,”comment”:” Va.,”}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613664877691},”type”:”text”,”content”:”A: So, in the cases of Montpelier, James Madison’s plantation, in Orange, Virginia, there are three images from that plantation. The words are spoken by Paul Jennings. He was James Madison’s lifelong manservant. He was emancipated, and after emancipation, wrote his memoirs. I would say that’s contemporaneous and rare.”},{“_id”:”QTWJWA52VBH7FP7ZTG5APCYRPM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:31,”comment”:” in”},{“pos”:34,”comment”:” anyone on”}],”comments”:[{“date”:”2021-02-23T14:19:37.636Z”,”start”:62,”end”:65,”text”:”I think is what she meant.”,”user”:”Nicole Smith”,”email”:”Nicole.Smith@ajc.com”}],”_id”:1613664877692},”type”:”text”,”content”:”But I have never found anything in anyone’s own hand.”},{“_id”:”CTFEXVFG2RFPZDMIURS2WK4GSQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613664877693},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Q: This has to be difficult work.”},{“_id”:”CCIZYKA2RNDHTLVFH7C2YLYMMI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:28,”comment”:” the”}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613664877694},”type”:”text”,”content”:”A: My work is not focused on brutality. It’s so much more subtle. But I think it works in a comfortable way, a kind of way that’s easier to absorb. 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But given the volatile racial climate and political rhetoric of the past few years, some people worry the incidents involving the Black history markers — though a relative handful — signal entrenchment of racial intolerance and denial of history, observers said. 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It tells the story of how Robinson went from the small town in South Georgia and became one of the most celebrated baseball players and civil rights figures in history —going from the Negro Leagues to becoming the first Black player to integrate Major League Baseball.”},{“_id”:”4II2MHYPRRHURETY2N3GS2T3NI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:31,”comment”:” historical society”}],”comments”:[{“date”:”2021-02-23T01:29:13.480Z”,”replies”:[{“date”:”2021-02-23T05:18:11.593Z”,”text”:”should or should not run it later than Feb. 27?”,”user”:”Rosalind Bentley”,”email”:”Rosalind.Bentley@ajc.com”}],”start”:0,”end”:9,”text”:”Since this references “last week,” we should run this story any later than Feb, 27 in print.”,”user”:”Nicole Smith”,”email”:”Nicole.Smith@ajc.com”}],”_id”:1613944651620},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Last week, a tipster called the Georgia Historical Society saying the sign had been shot. The historical society sent a staff member to take pictures of the damage and report it to the Grady County Sheriff’s Office. Pellets from what may have been a shotgun blast left deep pocks in the large, cast aluminum sign. Deep burrows clustered around several words including “Negro-American” and “baseball’s color barrier.””},{“_id”:”MP3RYKINKVACDHQ2PGNRVI7FAU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:2,”comment”:”Grady sheriff’s office “},{“pos”:49,”comment”:” over the weekend”}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613944651621},”type”:”text”,”content”:”A Grady County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson said on Friday that the case is assigned to an investigator, but could provide no further information.”},{“_id”:”3RPGIMRHKNEI5EVMIRUS3Z47RI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:10,”comment”:” just”},{“pos”:314,”comment”:”straight”}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613944651622},”type”:”text”,”content”:”This comes five months after a marker near Valdosta that’s dedicated to the memory of Mary Turner was removed late last year because of extreme vandalism. Controversial in and around Lowndes County when it was installed in 2010, the sign was repeatedly shot in recent years. Some rounds were so powerful they went through the aluminum.”},{“_id”:”SC2ICLVOGBHPVHFZ3X5WKECACE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:53,”comment”:” and”},{“pos”:147,”comment”:” itself”},{“pos”:247,”comment”:”,”},{“pos”:282,”comment”:”her baby”},{“pos”:307,”comment”:”The episode remains one of the most heinous episodes of racial violence in the state’s, if not the nation’s, h.”}],”comments”:[{“date”:”2021-02-23T01:33:47.614Z”,”replies”:[{“date”:”2021-02-23T05:17:12.846Z”,”text”:”When Ernie and I did our story in 2018, we looked at all lynchings across the South. This one was heinous in that the men were castrated, burned while hanging from trees and their bodied riddled with bullets and in one case the corpse dragged behind a care. I am comfortable with the reference but if you aren’t it’s fine to leave it out.”,”user”:”Rosalind Bentley”,”email”:”Rosalind.Bentley@ajc.com”}],”start”:437,”end”:438,”text”:”I don’t want to include this comment unless to can give it attribution. “,”user”:”Nicole Smith”,”email”:”Nicole.Smith@ajc.com”}],”_id”:1613944651623},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Erected after a campaign led by Turner’s descendants, a group of concerned residents, and Valdosta State University professors and students calling themselves the Mary Turner Project, the marker told the story of the 1918 lynching that left Turner — who was eight-months pregnant — and about 10 others dead.”},{“owner”:{“sponsored”:false,”id”:”ajc”},”copyright”:”The Mary Turner Project”,”address”:{},”syndication”:{},”caption”:”The marker recognizing the lynching of Mary Turner has long been a target of vandalism in Lowndes County, but in fall 2020, vandals tried to tear it down. Turner’s family, The Mary Turner Project and the Georgia Historical Society plan to reinstall a new version of the marker at a new location. 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This”}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613944651624},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Turner’s family and Mark George, who runs the Mary Turner Project, said the damaged sign — which at the time cost about $3,000 — should remain in its remote location near the spot where Turner was lynched, along the banks of the Little River, despite the absence of surveillance cameras in the area.”},{“_id”:”V65IP7654NATJOT23LV523FZ3U”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613944651625},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“We said no, we didn’t want to replace it because this is a testament to what happened back then — and what’s happening now,” said George, who previously taught at Valdosta State and Georgia State universities.”},{“_id”:”2MRZXECOZJD2NDHKP42XUUJTIY”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613944651626},”type”:”text”,”content”:”But last fall, George discovered the heavy aluminum marker had been deliberately and severely cracked in an attempt to dislodge it.”},{“_id”:”LKASDJITIFD5HGZXCAAXVDXA2M”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613953525708},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“We knew if it broke free, we’d never see it again,” George said.”},{“_id”:”BTMD72NACFCKHDHG6BKS2Q24AY”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:34,”comment”:” historical society,”},{“pos”:160,”comment”:” 8-foot tall”}],”comments”:[{“date”:”2021-02-23T01:33:21.072Z”,”replies”:[{“date”:”2021-02-23T05:14:02.061Z”,”text”:”george, one white volunteer and two black volunteers installed the marker. Three white people including George installed the cross. I simply added the racial breakdown about the marker in this draft.”,”user”:”Rosalind Bentley”,”email”:”Rosalind.Bentley@ajc.com”}],”start”:295,”end”:304,”text”:”This said the three were all white men in the prior draft. “,”user”:”Nicole Smith”,”email”:”Nicole.Smith@ajc.com”}],”_id”:1613953525709},”type”:”text”,”content”:”So, the Turner Project alerted the Georgia Historical Society, removed the sign and put it in storage. In its place, George had a local metal fabricator make an 8-foot-tall steel cross etched with Turner’s name. Just as he and three other volunteers — one white, two Black — installed the original marker by mixing cement with river water from the lynching site to make the marker’s concrete footing, George installed the cross last fall with the help of two other men. All three are white.”},{“_id”:”6NKAZ4BWUVALXC4CYDPWO7X2EQ”,”additional_properties”:{“comments”:[],”_id”:”EEAJ6CZF5NF53HXGKOXWI4IYG4″},”type”:”interstitial_link”,”url”:”https://www.ajc.com/things-to-do/book-review-illustrated-elegy-for-mary-turner-an-unflinching-account-of-a-lynching/Z4UGBZJGJZBQTFJEWLBLQDDFSM/”,”content”:”Book Review: Illustrated ‘Elegy for Mary Turner’ an unflinching account of a lynching”},{“owner”:{“sponsored”:false,”id”:”ajc”},”copyright”:”The Mary Turner Project”,”address”:{},”syndication”:{},”caption”:”This steel cross was commissioned and erected by The Mary Turner Project in the fall of 2020 to replace a defaced Georgia Historical Society marker that detailed Turner’s gruesome 1918 lynching. 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Stryde Jones, an investigator with the Lowndes County Sheriff’s office said Friday that his department has no leads in the Turner case.”},{“_id”:”QEUBIZKKW5HC7PZZ2CRI7S3GAU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1614021693614},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“But we would welcome the opportunity to follow up,” Jones said.”},{“_id”:”GSQ6DCIAJVEUDBGA4DJHQQGTDM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:102,”comment”:”And a “},{“pos”:113,”comment”:” of”},{“pos”:287,”comment”:”(Can we add something like that to make clear not ‘remote’?)”}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613953525710},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Remote locations can make markers more vulnerable to criminal damage. But that’s not always the case. About three years ago, Groce said, the marker recognizing a church started by enslaved Black people in Fayette County was also shot at, despite the church having an active congregation.”},{“_id”:”3RP7W6ESAFE4NPVPDLAR2XTAPA”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:46,”comment”:” Southern”},{“pos”:290,”comment”:” after.”}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613944651633},”type”:”text”,”content”:”The Georgia incidents have precedents in other southern states. Two years ago, the marker recognizing the 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi had to be removed and replaced for at least the third time after being repeatedly shot by vandals. A new bulletproof marker soon followed. It was placed near the site where Till’s body was tossed in the Tallahatchie River by two white men who killed him based on accusations Till flirted with one of the men’s wives.”},{“level”:2,”_id”:”5EYQ2LPCX5DCHJOKRLQLQH76GM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613953525712},”type”:”header”,”content”:”“Speaking from the grave””},{“_id”:”SJXFMLNGNZCBNEX6MZP2RXFSC4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”TO CUT THIS DOWN (IT’S 67 INCHES), I’D LEAVE OUT SOME OF THESE MARY TURNER DETAILS. “}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613944651636},”type”:”text”,”content”:”While Robinson’s life story has achieved legendary status both in the sports world and in popular culture — told in books, songs, a television series, an Oscar-nominated film — Turner’s story is far less well-known. Though the circumstances of her death have inspired books, a play, a sculpture and even a jazz requiem, the crime’s extreme brutality is difficult to discuss, even now.”},{“_id”:”TATUVJBJUZCJTGUFCKIV6MHZ4U”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”While accounts of her lynching were published in newspapers across the nation, the most detailed report came from NAACP investigator Walter White. He traveled to Lowndes and Brooks counties in the aftermath of the murder. Based on his interviews with confidential sources and mob participants, White’s chilling account, published as “The Work of the Mob,” is the best-known documentation of a weeklong lynching spree that spread across Brooks and Lowndes counties in May 1918.”}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613944651637},”type”:”text”,”content”:””},{“_id”:”XTLIC4ITT5HTFJMDHNYBLSRELU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”It began as a labor dispute between a notoriously cruel Brooks County plantation owner, Hampton Smith, and Sidney Johnson, a Black man whom Smith hired through a convict leasing scheme run out of the local jail. Smith allegedly beat Johnson severely after Johnson confronted him about being short changed on wages. Johnson later shot Smith, killing him, and wounded Smith’s wife, who survived.”}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613944651638},”type”:”text”,”content”:””},{“_id”:”OVY7YOZJIRGOLCWF7YWPQBZ6UQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”A lynch mob formed almost immediately. Over the next seven days, almost a dozen Black people who’d had nothing to do with the murder were killed by the mob in the most gruesome of ways: castrating them, burning them alive, riddling their bodies with bullets and hanging the corpses from trees, and, in the case of Johnson, dragging the corpse behind a car through Valdosta streets.”}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613944651639},”type”:”text”,”content”:””},{“_id”:”GMK6VQOKRJAB5JFSP4EZF5YOYQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”“My uncle heard stories about people who came in buggies looking for someone to kill,” George said. “It was a killing spree.”}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613944651640},”type”:”text”,”content”:””},{“_id”:”Z5SITWV4ZFHDDFDZWTNTASN5SE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”“I wouldn’t be surprised if my grandfather was involved. There were so many people who were involved in the blood lust.””}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613944651641},”type”:”text”,”content”:””},{“_id”:”A2ZBWGHPENE5BNCESDZHDQD3WU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:0,”comment”:”Mary Turner’s husband, Hayes,cq was among those murdered. When Turner, then eight months pregnant, protested her husband’s innocenceOver “},{“pos”:56,”comment”:” black”},{“pos”:156,”comment”:”who had nothing to do with the plantation owner’s killing.”},{“pos”:469,”comment”:”There “},{“pos”:585,”comment”:”squashed by the heel of a murderer’s boot”},{“pos”:673,”comment”:” in any of the killings”}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613944651642},”type”:”text”,”content”:”During seven days in May 1918, a lynch mob looking for a Black man accused of shooting a white plantation owner murdered at least 10 innocent Black people. They were killed in the most gruesome ways, including Mary Turner’s husband, Hayes. Mary Turner spoke out after her husband’s lynching and threatened to have his killers prosecuted, so the mob turned on her. She was led to a remote spot along the Lowndes County shore of the Little River, just outside Valdosta. While there, she was hung upside down from a tree, set on fire, her womb sliced open, her baby’s skull crushed, and then her remains were struck by volleys of gunfire. No one was ever arrested or charged.”},{“_id”:”W456TFRDVBFY3AXSOU2YMFGOW4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:46,”comment”:”cq”}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613944651643},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Mary Turner was the sister of Randy McClain’s paternal great-grandfather. The Atlanta nursing supervisor said he didn’t realize Turner was his great-aunt until he was “well into adulthood” and planning a family reunion.”},{“_id”:”4VJJHVYIUZFQ5LQPY72DLBDY74″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613944651644},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“It was never talked about” among the family, McClain said.”},{“_id”:”MBUOZAT5RFFKHJX6N5LBMI3AVE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:215,”comment”:”Head was the mob’s first victim. According to White’s account, he was hung from a tree about five miles outside Valdosta, then his corpse riddled with hundreds of bullets.”}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1614021693627},”type”:”text”,”content”:”It was in a conversation with an uncle, however, that McClain learned he was related, on his mother’s side, to another victim of the lynching rampage, Will Head, who is not named but alluded to in the Turner marker.”},{“_id”:”YITG43754FDFLDACNTQ6YFLZHU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613944651646},”type”:”text”,”content”:”That the marker to his great-aunt was so viciously defaced is an irony not lost on McClain. He said his family plans on putting a replacement marker in a more public location in Lowndes County. The permanent spot hasn’t been chosen.”},{“_id”:”7ZY6JDWTNZBZRNJ2TCSKUVZKGM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:6,”comment”:”cq”},{“pos”:163,”comment”:”The historical society is a private entity but has an agreement with the state to maintain state-owned markers installed prior to the mid-1990s. It partners with organizations that raise money for markers in their communities and provides matching funds for their creation.”}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613964217315},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Pattye Meagher, spokesperson for the historical society, said members of the organization’s board of curators have offered to pay the full cost of the replacement.”},{“_id”:”ISYGRQHXOZBOBGSSZFZBWARDVU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613944651647},”type”:”text”,”content”:”The Turner family also wants the damaged marker to have a permanent home.”},{“_id”:”KSNKAAGUVVDVFJYHES3IVFEMU4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613944651648},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“I would love for the vandalized one to be stored in a museum in Georgia because there’s no monument to her in Georgia,” McClain said.“ Particularly in the era we’re in now, with racial injustice, the timing is right for it.””},{“_id”:”DW4WEFMPMRA3LFEYZR4KOKYBKQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:219,”comment”:” has been brought under control.”}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613944651654},”type”:”text”,”content”:”It’s unclear at this point whether the Robinson marker will be replaced or left to stand as it is. 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Each day at noon and 5 p.m. different religious leaders will lead prayers with those gathered at the site, at 601 West Ponce de Leon Ave.”},{“_id”:”QFDYKH74NFDOHFHW2JMM2M7YGU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613996714410},”type”:”text”,”content”:”First Christian sits on a gentle rise on the western edge of Decatur’s downtown, and its lawn is tilted like a well-placed billboard toward the traffic on Ponce de Leon.”},{“owner”:{“sponsored”:false,”id”:”ajc”},”address”:{“locality”:”Decatur”},”caption”:”Kathy Morse helps plant flags to represent the number of COVID-19 deaths in Georgia. The display served as a “public mourning space” said organizer Tim Franzen. 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To begin with, she said, the state needs to concentrate on providing vaccinations in lower-income neighborhoods, in communities of color, and for teachers who teach in those communities.”},{“_id”:”JCHDVGXXIZHUBFIDY6RCSNGOAI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[{“pos”:175,”comment”:”two-year-old twins.”}],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613989873857},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Also, it is imperative for the state’s leaders to take the pandemic seriously, said State Rep. 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Be sure to check individual restaurant websites for the latest opening hours and offerings,” the website said.”},{“_id”:”6KXSYQHV3ZFQLC6ESNRI42ATT4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1613750111580},”type”:”text”,”content”:”The types of restaurant food you can have sent to your home vary. 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The next big thing in chicken tech? Tune in to find out. #innovation https://t.co/KuBLjReml9

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Still don’t believe me that you can get paid to ride around in the NUTmobile? Ask them yourself! Follow them @NUTmobile_Tour to find out how nuts the job really is.

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Exciting news about two beautiful new members of our animal population — welcome Betty and Vanna, two new white storks!…

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Still, residents persisted until an incident with racial overtones tore the town apart, said Edwards. Russell Taylor, a town leader, was grief-stricken when his mentally ill brother was killed by sheriff’s deputies in 1913. 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IHOP cancelled national pancake day. Hold this L 😒

— Christian (@_chrisdarling) February 16, 2021nn”,”_id”:”https://twitter.com/_chrisdarling/status/1361689915688448003″,”additional_properties”:{“comments”:[],”_id”:1613489171549},”provider_name”:”Twitter”,”height”:null},”type”:”oembed_response”},{“subtype”:”twitter”,”referent”:{“referent_properties”:{“additional_properties”:{“comments”:[],”_id”:1613489171550}},”provider”:”https://publish.twitter.com/oembed?url=”,”service”:”oembed”,”id”:”https://twitter.com/kelzywelzy/status/1361636818194731011″,”type”:”twitter”},”_id”:”Q6DZ5SKOLZDX7NETGVUDV22OQU”,”raw_oembed”:{“author_name”:”Keli-Anne K. P. 🌸◇◆”,”cache_age”:”3153600000″,”provider_url”:”https://twitter.com”,”type”:”twitter”,”version”:”1.0″,”url”:”https://twitter.com/kelzywelzy/status/1361636818194731011″,”author_url”:”https://twitter.com/kelzywelzy”,”width”:550,”html”:”

It’s National pancake day and I dont see any coupons on the ihop app 😒

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IHOP National Pancake Day is upon us. Or is it? Tune in for an important update.

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