Wayne Crooks News Today

As she held on to a bicycle for support just footsteps away from where her brother, Cedric Crooks, was killed along with her brother-in-law, Richard Manley, 47, on Saturday night, Doreen Palmer says she is convinced that her family is marked for...

In downtown Atlanta, there sits a small brick building that was the home to the first black-owned radio station – WERD – in the United States in the 1950s. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders used the broadcast to spread their messages, encourage black citizens to vote and announce civil rights marches in between the performances of black jazz and blues performers during the Jim Crow era.  One would hope that by the year 2021 the legacy that WERD left in American...