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A consecration ceremony was held over the weekend at the site of the old Chattahoochee Brick Co., where many Black people are believed to have died without proper burials. The brick company was one of many convict labor camps in the post-Civil War South, where Black men, women and children were sold into captivity, many after being arrested on made-up charges. Credit Christopher Alston / WABE
Black community leaders are hopeful they may be making progress in a fight to reclaim land in northwest Atlanta that they say is sacred.
Clergy, activists, lawmakers and members of the community held a consecration ceremony at the site of the old Chattahoochee Brick Co. this past weekend to memorialize the victims of the atrocity that took place there.
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Jon Shirek, 11 Alive, December 9, 2020
Just three weeks to go and 2020 will go down as the year violent crime ravaged Atlanta and other major cities, just like COVID-19 is doing, and in part because of the pandemic.
One veteran city leader told 11Alive on Wednesday that for the first time in her memory, every area of Atlanta is now affected directly by crime “as never before.”
Crimes in Buckhead, on Atlanta’s northside, for example, have been drawing a lot of the most recent attention.
Throughout this year, for example, gunfire has erupted at least seven times inside Lenox Square Mall.