For the fourth Father’s Day in a row, Black Love, Inc. is sharing a visual memoir that celebrates Black fathers in Hollywood, ultimately to dismantle the longstanding narrative that Black men tend to not be present in their children’s lives. The memoir, titled Father Noir and spearheaded by award-winning filmmaker, producer and photographer Tommy Oliver (CEO […]
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms recently announced a Utah laboratory will examine DNA evidence from a series of killings committed in Atlanta during in the 1970s and 80s. Lance Bottoms wrote on Twitter that Atlanta investigators are going to Salt Lake City to provide a private lab with DNA evidence from missing and murder children […]
Bottoms, who received her undergraduate degree from Florida A&M University, has expressed support for HBCUs throughout her political career. The 60th mayor of Atlanta relayed her message when she spoke at the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College in 2018. “We must continue to enhance and fortify the greatest concentration of Historically […]
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms may not be running for reelection, but she’s not clocking out until the absolute last hour. The mayor spoke with Blavity after hosting a visit by Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen, who spoke with Georgia business leaders to promote President Joe Biden’s infrastructure agenda on Wednesday. As Bottoms described after […]
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, who has served in her role since 2017, announced on Thursday that she will not run for reelection this year. “As (husband) Derek and I have given thoughtful prayer and consideration to the season now before us, it is with deep emotions that I hold my head high, and choose […]
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced earlier this week she won’t run for reelection. Bottoms held a press conference on Friday explaining her decision. The mayor said she wrote two potential letter to the residents of Atlanta – one which announced that she would remain in the mayoral race and one announcing that she won’t […]