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T.I. onstage at the 51st NAACP Image Awards at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020, in Pasadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

T.I. to teach ‘Business of Trap Music’ at Clark Atlanta

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Atlanta takes first steps to change some policing policies

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FILE - In this March 1, 1965 file photo Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. hops over a puddle as it rains in Selma, Ala. King led hundreds of African Americans to the court house in a voter registration drive. At front is civil rights worker Andrew Young, and at right, behind King is Rev. Ralph Abernathy. Today's protests across America against racial injustice are being watched closely by people who five decades ago faced jail cells, bloody assaults, snarling dogs and even potential assassination in the battle against institutional racism. Young, a King lieutenant, marvels at both the sizes and the spontaneity of the protests. The former Democratic congressman, Atlanta mayor and United Nations ambassador recalled activists spending three months to organize for a 1963 Birmingham, Alabama, campaign in which King and other protesters were jailed. (AP Photo, File)

Icons of 1960s civil rights movement voice cautious optimism

By DAN SEWELL and RUSSELL CONTRERAS - Associated Press

This image from surveillance video tweeted by Atlanta Fire Rescue shows Natalie White. White has been identified as a suspect in the arson fire on Saturday, June 13, 2020, that burned down the Wendys restaurant, 125 University Ave., in Atlanta, where Rayshard Brooks was shot and killed by a police officer. (Courtesy of Atlanta Fire Rescue via AP)

Natalie White sought in Wendy’s fire during Atlanta protests

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FILE - In this Monday, June 15, 2020, file photo, Chassidy Evans, the niece of Rayshard Brooks, speaks at a news conference held by members of Brooks' family, in Atlanta. The deadly police shooting of Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta soon after the city erupted in fiery demonstrations protesting police brutality have cast a harsh spotlight on cracks in Atlanta's reputation for Black prosperity in politics and business. (AP Photo/Ron Harris, File)

Shooting, protests test Atlanta’s image of Black prosperity

By RUSS BYNUM - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 14, 2020 file photo, Renault Verona cleans up the site of the burned Wendy's restaurant in Atlanta. Investigators said Saturday, June 20, they have issued an arrest warrant for a woman in the burning of a Wendy’s restaurant in Atlanta during protests over the police shooting of Rayshard Brooks. (Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Woman wanted after Atlanta Wendy’s burns in shooting protest

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Interim Atlanta Police Chief Rodney Bryant speaks to The Associated Press on Thursday, June 18, 2020, in Atlanta. On Saturday, June 13, former Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields resigned after an officer fatally shot Rayshard Brooks after a struggle in a Wendy's restaurant parking lot. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Atlanta police call out sick over charges in fatal shooting

By Kate Brumback - Associated Press

Police make arrest in killings of 3 Atlanta homeless people

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Protesters march in a Black Lives Matter demonstration organized by the Dallas Black Firefighters Association on Juneteenth 2020 in Dallas, Friday, June 19, 2020. Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to take control of the state and ensure all enslaved people be freed, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Juneteenth takes on new meaning amid push for racial justice

By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER and JONATHAN MATTISE and MICHELLE R. SMITH - Associated Press

This combination of photos provided by the Atlanta Police Department shows Officer Garrett Rolfe, left and Officer Devin Brosnan. Rolfe, who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks in the back after the fleeing man pointed a stun gun in his direction, will be charged with felony murder and 10 other charges. Brosnan, stood on Brooks' shoulder as he struggled for life after a confrontation will be charged with aggravated assault. (Atlanta Police Department via AP)

Atlanta police call out sick to protest charges in shooting

By KATE BRUMBACK - Associated Press

In this June 12, 2020 file photo from a screen grab taken from body camera video provided by the Atlanta Police Department Rayshard Brooks speaks with Officer Garrett Rolfe in the parking lot of a Wendy's restaurant, in Atlanta. Rolfe has been fired following the fatal shooting of Brooks and a second officer has been placed on administrative duty. The Fulton County District Attorney will announce charging decisions in the fatal shooting of Brooks during a news conference, Wednesday, June 17, 2020, in Atlanta. (Atlanta Police Department via AP, File)

Garrett Rolfe, Rayshard Brooks killer, to be charged

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Newlyweds Corbett Leatherwood, left, of Manassas, Va., and Michele Davis, kiss during a photo session for their wedding photographer after passing through the 16th Street area that was renamed Black Lives Matter Plaza, Friday, June 12, 2020, near the White House in Washington, the site of protests over the death of George Floyd, a black man who was in police custody in Minneapolis. Floyd died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers. The couple were married outside of the Supreme Court earlier in the day, on the 53rd anniversary of the Loving v. Virginia Supreme Court case which legalized interracial marriage in the United States. "The message we are spreading is that love wins in the midst of all the bad things happening," says Davis, "being able to get married today and then come down here where people are fighting racial injustice was very important to us." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

EDITORIAL: Mixed marriage takes the hatred out of race

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Officer points gun at black teens in video; police explain

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Georgia city investigating police chief after Facebook post

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This screen grab taken from body camera video provided by the Atlanta Police Department shows Rayshard Brooks speaking with Officer Garrett Rolfe in the parking lot of a Wendy's restaurant, late Friday, June 12, 2020, in Atlanta. Rolfe has been fired following the fatal shooting of Brooks and a second officer has been placed on administrative duty. (Atlanta Police Department via AP)

Value of police body cameras limited by lack of transparency

By JAKE BLEIBERG - Associated Press

In this May 18, 2020, file photo, Belvin Jefferson White poses with a portrait of her father Saymon Jefferson at Saymon's home in Baton Rouge, La. Belvin recently lost both her father and her uncle, Willie Lee Jefferson, to COVID-19. African Americans are disproportionately likely to say a family member or close friend has died of COVID-19 or respiratory illness since March, according to a series of surveys conducted since April that lays bare how black Americans have borne the brunt of the pandemic. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Poll: Black Americans most likely to know a COVID-19 victim

By Kat Stafford and Hannah Fingerhut - Associated Press

This screen grab taken from body camera video provided by the Atlanta Police Department shows Rayshard Brooks speaking with Officer Garrett Rolfe in the parking lot of a Wendy's restaurant, late Friday, June 12, 2020, in Atlanta. Rolfe has been fired following the fatal shooting of Brooks and a second officer has been placed on administrative duty. (Atlanta Police Department via AP)

‘When does it stop?’ Slain man’s family makes tearful plea

By RUSS BYNUM and KATE BRUMBACK - Associated Press

People hold a rally at Wendy's on University Avenue in Atlanta on Sunday, June 14, 2020. Rayshard Brooks died after a confrontation with police officers at the fast-food restaurant in Atlanta on Friday. (Steve Schaefer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Resisting arrest is Atlanta’s killer — and America’s

By Ralph Z. Hallow - The Washington Times

Atlanta mayor: Shootings of 3 homeless people appear linked

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