UGA celebrates Women’s History Month
February 26, 2021
Deborah Scott (Submitted photo)
This year’s Women’s History Month keynote address will be presented by Deborah Scott, executive director of Georgia STAND-UP, a “think and act tank” that supports community economic development through advocacy for community benefits, project work agreements and other policies that increase equity and access to opportunity. A graduate of Clark Atlanta University, Scott is an accomplished advocate of universal voting rights, economic inclusion and progressive civic engagement as well as a master organizer, strategist and highly skilled trainer. In 2012, she was recognized by the White House as a Champion of Change.
Colleges to house new center that trains Black entrepreneurs By CHRISTINE FERNANDO, Associated Press
Published: February 28, 2021, 6:02am
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2 Photos FILE - In this April 12, 2019, file photo, people enter the campus of Morehouse College in Atlanta. A new center for training Black entrepreneurs will be opening in Atlanta as part of a collaboration announced Monday, Feb. 22, 2021, between Spelman College, Morehouse College and an advocacy organization made up of business leaders. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File) Photo Gallery
CHICAGO A new center for training Black entrepreneurs will be opening in Atlanta as part of a collaboration announced Monday between Spelman College, Morehouse College and an advocacy organization made up of business leaders.
The Ratpacks of comedy brings fun to the AM Wake-Up Call. As rolling out kicks the weekend off, they had special guests who brought in the fun and the laughs.
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Critical.Caribbean.Art.] Gail O’Neill features Basil Watson in
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For sculptor Basil Barrington Watson, the opportunity to create a 12-foot-tall bronze monument to mark the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s long fight for civil rights was more than a simple commission. It also was about family legacy.
His father, painter Barrington Watson, was a visiting professor at Spelman College in 1970 when the school asked that he paint a portrait of King. “When I submitted my proposal and it was accepted, it was like a continuation of my father’s legacy,” says Watson. “I considered it a great honor for my family and our history.” [. . .] The first of seven installations commissioned to honor the legacy and global influence of the civil rights leader, Hope Moving Forward was the winning sculpture proposal of a selection committee made up of representatives from the Mayor’s Office of Cu