Kanye West is having a listening event for his new album "Donda" tonight at Mercedes Benz Stadium. He gifted 5,000 tickets to faculty, staff and students from Atlanta HBCUs for the sold-out event.
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- Morehouse School of Medicine's first cohort of rural doulas just graduated. The doulas are slated to begin working with pregnant and postpartum patients this year in a state that has one of the highest rates of maternal mortality in the country.
- Activists have questioned the police version of events at the site of a planned public safety training center and called for the release of law enforcement body camera footage.
- Stacey Abrams joined “City Lights” last week to talk about her new children's book “Stacey’s Extraordinary Words" and its reflection of her younger self.
- A bill passed by Congress and sponsored by GA Sen. Jon Ossoff on Wednesday now requires the federal Bureau of Prisons to overhaul failing and outdated security systems in the wake of rampant staff sexual abuse, inmate escapes and high-profile deaths.
- The coronavirus vaccines have been rolled out unevenly across the U.S., but Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and South Carolina have had particularly dismal inoculation rates that have alarmed health experts and frustrated residents.
- The Washington Post reported that more than 100 leaders talked about potential ways to show they opposed the legislation, which has already been signed into law in Georgia and is being considered elsewhere.
- A geographer at Georgia State University decided to look into the where supporters of the police training facility better known as “Cop City” are located and found very few live near the proposed site, with many located outside of Atlanta.
- A bill passed by Congress and sponsored by GA Sen. Jon Ossoff on Wednesday now requires the federal Bureau of Prisons to overhaul failing and outdated security systems in the wake of rampant staff sexual abuse, inmate escapes and high-profile deaths.
- The Rev. Bernice King, who leads The King Center in Atlanta, said leaders — especially politicians — too often cheapen her father’s legacy into a “comfortable and convenient King” offering easy platitudes.
- The Bail Project announced Monday that it has closed its Atlanta branch due to a new Georgia law that expands cash bail and restricts organizations that post inmates’ bonds as they await trial.
- Replying to @wabenewsUpdate: GBI public affairs director Nelly Miles informed WABE Thursday evening that there is no body camera footage of the incident.
- Former California Republican Governor Arnold @Schwarzenegger‘s organization, the USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy, will give Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger a “Democracy Action Hero” award next week. #gapol
