John Vodicka News Today

Here are five top stories you may have missed this past week.

A ceremony will be held Saturday at Harris Shoals Park to remember three Black men lynched in Watkinsville in 1921.

A memorial service was held recently in the Cobbham Triangle Park on Prince Avenue in Athens to mark the tragic death of Nancy Little Gallagher.

Since last years protests across the country, some local advocacy organizations have seen renewed interest in their missions, and for Mokah Jasmine Johnson, this has helped shine a light on a topic important to her: the criminal justice system. Johnson, president and co-founder of the Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement, said when she jumped into activism, her main focus was to address discrimination and racism. Through research, she learned the percentage of Black and brown people in jail in A...