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A celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was held Friday at the King Center.

Pullman Car Named in Gala Ceremonies - This morning as whistles blew, as flags flew and as martial music filled the air, local citizens and railway executives joined in paying tribute to Fuller E. Callaway, founder of a group of cotton mills that bear his name, whose ability and business acumen plus a love for the folks with whom he was associated ... (more)

An Atlanta man today pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in a statewide scheme to defraud two federally funded nutrition programs out of $19 million.

Georgia Public Broadcasting, now ending its second week of its controversial partnership with Georgia State University to broadcast daytime programming of WRAS 88.5 FM, has responded to the widely read letter from WABE.

Morrison, who will be based in Washington, will focus on domestic video output for APTN, AP Video-US and online.

This time around, the massive rooms are being used for a lot more than dancing, the paper says.

Clark Atlanta University officials say the school is hosting a group of about two dozen young African leaders for a program focused on business and entrepreneurship.

Tommy Lee Waldrip was scheduled to be executed tonight. The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles granted the inmate clemency and his sentence has been commuted to life without parole.

ReadMedia Newswire The following Gwinnett County students were named to the Dean's List of Emory College of Arts and Sciences, the undergraduate, liberal arts college of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, for the 2014 spring semester.

The opening of the 94,000-square-foot facility was timed to coincide with two games at the Georgia Dome to begin the college football season: Mississippi vs. Boise State on Aug. 28, followed two days later by Alabama vs. West Virginia.

Clark Atlanta University officials say the school is hosting a group of about two dozen young African leaders for a program focused on business and entrepreneurship.

A high-end prostitute administered a Google executive with an injection of heroin and, as he began to die, she sipped more from her glass of wine and walked away, police allege.

Authorities are probing whether an alleged prostitute charged with manslaughter in the death of a Google executive might also have been involved in the death of her boyfriend last year.

When Gospel artist, Corey Barksdale penned his new song "Persona", he made the decision speak on his challenges with authenticity and how they pushed him to seek out who God crafted him to be in life.

The only thing better than pizza is pizza you don't have to pay for, and there are some free slices coming to Atlanta soon.

Several government agencies will join forces on July 11 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson's signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced today.

Today on Real Talk with Rashad Richey, our special guest was Jewel Chandler the founder of the Teens Against Gun Violence Conference, which is set to take place on July 26th at the Apex Museum in Atlanta, and July 27th and the Saratoga Lake Condo Clubhouse in Decatur.

The Atlanta Center for Medical Research will move from its current location in Midtown to a newly renovated, $25 million facility in southwest Atlanta.

Crime novelist Karin Slaughter's neighborhood in Jonesboro, Georgia has a lot to do with her work today.

Atlanta BeltLine Inc. is hitting the market for some of downtown's high-rise office space, as the city looks to sell its current home, Underground Atlanta.