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Virginia Prescott: It's Georgia Today. I'm Virginia Prescott, in for Steve Fennessy. As the nation celebrates Black History Month, we're taking you back to an often-overlooked chapter in Georgia's civil rights history. Before the Selma to Montgomery march, before the “I Have a Dream” speech, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was sentenced to four months of hard labor for an outstanding traffic violation. It's October 1960, just weeks before Election Day. Dr. King is arrested for taking part in a lunch counter sit-in at Rich's department store in Atlanta. He was then transferred to DeKalb County...

In the summer of 2011, three months before her eightieth birthday, the playwright Adrienne Kennedy reflected on her life in the unpublished essay “Almost Eighty.” Now, nearly a decade later, with Kennedy’s ninetieth birthday right around the corner, the piece has finally been published in He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box and Other Plays , which Theatre Communications Group released in November . The essay appears in full below. Adrienne Kennedy’s mother, Etta Hawkins (née Haugabook), 1928, while a student at Atlanta University. Photo courtesy of Adrienne Kennedy. At almost eighty, ...

Rolling Stone The Pastor, the Pandemic, and the Political Race of a Lifetime How a year rocked by Covid-19 and a reckoning around race could propel Rev. Raphael Warnock to become Georgia’s first black U.S. senator By Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images Kenya Harmon and Keynan Williams are cutting it up on a December afternoon at the Kayton Homes in Savannah, Georgia. Williams, a wiry man with big eyes, sits in a wicker chair with a sun-bleached cushion, cigarette in his hand, Miller High Life at his feet, dog staring quizzically out of the screen door behind him. A tinsel wreath,...

Sadly, nothing is off limits for some. ed? ed: thanks, ainsley. the trump administration last weeing schools and colleges to toss out obama era guidelines to consider schools in effort to divert. new admission standard. is this a step in the right direction? we're asking the niece of dr. martin luther king jr. and fox news contributor, dr. alveda king. >> good morning "fox & friends." i'm so glad you asked me this question. i'm 67 years old. as a young girl into my young years, even going into college, i was taught by my dad, my mother daddy king and granddaddy and even martin luther king jr. ...

Heard from president trump in nashville. watch this. >> when when i make a speech and i talk about african-american and i'd say, highest crime rate, bad education, i'd go ten points and they always voting, african-american votes for democrats for the most part. vast majority, that i have been doing it for over 100 years. >> since 1960s, 50 years. >> also can we say -- over 50 years. african-american were traditionally republican because they were the part of lincoln. dr. king, daddy king was a republican. he get the facts wrong, many black people couldn't vote until 1960. and he get the fact w...