Gov. Nathan Deal’s DeKalb school board nominating panel has begun accepting applications for candidates to fill the seats of six suspended members of the DeKalb County school board. Applicants should send the following information to dekalbschoolboardnominations@georgia.gov: Legal name, contact information and home address District seat for which one is applying Resume, CV and/or brief [...]
Callanwolde Arts Center’s new executive director, Peggy Still Johnson, carries a long list of occupations: entrepreneur, accomplished pianist and vocal performer, composer, arranger and educator. Johnson is on the advisory board of the Georgia State University School of Music, the board of governors (Composer Seat) of the Atlanta Chapter of The Recording Academy (Grammy Organization) [...]
When people look back—as they often do in February—on media portrayals of Black people in less enlightened days, inescapably, the much maligned 1950s television program The Amos ‘n’ Andy Show enters the conversation. Over the years, The Amos ‘n’ Andy Show has become the oft-cited example of all that was wrong in early depictions of [...]
Announcing the 2013 CEO’s Community Hero Awards presented by The Champion Newspaper and DeKalb County CEO Burrell Ellis. Nominate a community servant, community organization or an individual in the DeKalb community who tirelessly volunteers his or her service for the betterment of DeKalb County. 2013 Community Hero Awards Nomination Form by
“Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed, rounds.—the unofficial motto of our U.S. Postal Service as inscribed on the James Farley Post Office in New York City. Our United States Postal Service, (USPS), a quasi-public/private entity, with all the benefits and [...]
To their disappointment, residents in the Druid Hills community say they will have to go to court to continue their battle against a proposed subdivision in the historic district. Residents were hoping for an end to their decade-long fight against the subdivision planned by property owners Robert H. Buckler and Anthony McCullar. The men want [...]
It was a distracted driver who forever changed the life of Cynthia Williams of Tucker. In August 2006, her 17-year-old son Christopher was a passenger in a vehicle that flipped nine times. Christopher suffered extensive head trauma. “I had to pull the plug on him a week later,” Williams said. “It was on my birthday.” [...]
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