Atlanta Daily World

09/22/2025

Property is Power! What Unequal Access to Credit Means for Black Homeownership
https://atlantadailyworld.com/2025/09/22/property-is-power-what-unequal-access-to-credit-means-for-black-homeownership/

Homeownership has long been a cornerstone of building wealth in America, yet unequal access to credit continues to block too many African Americans from this path. Data consistently shows that Black applicants are denied mortgages at significantly higher rates than their white counterparts even when...

09/22/2025

Additional $49 Million Approved to Support Georgia Helene and Debby Recovery
https://atlantadailyworld.com/2025/09/22/additional-49-million-approved-to-support-georgia-helene-and-debby-recovery/
FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency #

FEMA continues to support the state of Georgia as it leads community cleanup and restores infrastructure damaged by Tropical Storm Helene and Debby. In September alone, FEMA has obligated more than $49 million for 111 state and local recovery projects. This funding helps cover road repair, critical....

09/10/2025

Barack Obama making movies?
https://atlantadailyworld.com/2025/09/09/barack-obama-wins-third-emmy/

Photo: Scott Olson / Getty Images News / Getty Images Former President Barack Obama is adding to his trophy collection. On Sunday (September 7), Obama took home the Outstanding Narrator award at the Creative Arts Emmys for his work on the Netflix natural history series Our Oceans, per Newsweek. The....

09/10/2025

Atlanta Fashion Week features local and Black designers
https://atlantadailyworld.com/2025/09/10/atlanta-fashion-week-office-of-cultural-affairs-to-spotlight-independent-designers-and-creatives/
City of Atlanta - Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs

City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs and Atlanta Fashion Week Announce Independent, a New Digital Talk Series Spotlighting Independent Designers and Creatives   The City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs (OCA) and Atlanta Fashion Week (ATLFW) are excited to announce t...

09/10/2025

H.J. Russell's daughter Donata Russell passing the torch at iconic family business?
https://atlantadailyworld.com/2025/09/10/concessions-international-llc-announces-ceo-transition-donata-russell-ross-to-retire-nikki-tinsley-harland-appointed-as-successor/
Nikki Tinsley Donata Russell

Concessions International, LLC, today announced that Donata Russell Ross, who has been with the company for 42 years and has led it as the Chief Executive Officer since 2013, will retire on October 6, 2025. The CEO search committee, which included Russell Ross’ brothers, Michael B. Russell and Jer...

09/10/2025

Can the color of your skin get you deported?
https://atlantadailyworld.com/2025/09/09/supreme-court-allows-ice-officers-to-more-freely-make-immigration-stops-based-on-racial-profiling/

By Amy Howe The Supreme Court on Monday paused a ruling by a federal judge in Los Angeles that imposed restrictions on the ability of federal agents to make immigration stops that the plaintiffs say are based on racial profiling. The order by U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong barred...

09/10/2025

DeKalb County Getting Government Overhaul?
https://atlantadailyworld.com/2025/09/09/dekalb-county-ceo-lorraine-cochran-johnson-spearheads-government-overhaul-with-independent-consultants/
Lorraine Cochran-Johnson for DeKalb CEO

DeKalb County Chief Executive Officer Lorraine Cochran-Johnson recently announced the release of a landmark organizational assessment conducted by independent consulting firm Mauldin & Jenkins. Commissioned as part of CEO Cochran-Johnson’s transition strategy, the report represents a significant s...

09/10/2025

Will Trump get away with that graphic birthday message in the Epstein letter?
https://tlantadailyworld.com/2025/09/10/he-lies-jasmine-crockett-slams-trump-defense-of-epstein-birthday-letter/

09/10/2025

Are you near a food desert or at risk of food insecurity?
https://atlantadailyworld.com/2025/09/10/first-municipal-grocery-store-opens-in-atlanta-through-unique-public-private-partnership/
Savi Provisions

The City of Atlanta in partnership with Invest Atlanta and Savi Provisions announced the opening of Azalea Fresh Market, a first-of-its-kind municipal grocery store located in Downtown Atlanta. The store officially opened to the public at 7:00 a.m. on Monday, September 8. In that first day, Azalea w...

08/29/2025

Do you support Arrington's position on BRE appointments and court ruling?
Fulton County Government City of Atlanta Government Commissioner Marvin Arrington Jr General Assembly

    ATLANTA—Yesterday, a judge held the Fulton County Board of Commissioners in contempt, ordering a fine of $10,000 per day until the Commission agrees to appoint two people nominated by the Republican Party to the Board of Registration and Elections. Today, Commissioner Marvin Arrington, Jr. ...

08/29/2025

Does your business qualify for legacy grant? City of Atlanta Government Invest AtlantaAtlanta Business ChronicleAtlanta Business LeagueBetter Business Bureau Atlanta & NE Georgia

  Mayor Andre Dickens and Invest Atlanta announced IA’s Board of Directors approved $250,000 in Small Business Improvement Grants, through Tax Allocation District (TAD) funding, to help five local legacy businesses fund interior and exterior improvements to their commercial property. With each gr...

08/21/2025

https://atlantadailyworld.com/2025/08/20/trump-hints-at-no-more-elections-if-u-s-is-at-war-in-2028-2/

Photo: Getty Images North America President Donald Trump is again hinting at finding a loophole to serve a third presidential term. During a White House summit on Monday (August 18), Trump appeared at a joint press conference with several European leaders, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zel...