The officers, whose jobs were reinstated, wanted to sue former Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, former DA Paul Howard and former ...

In May 2020, during protests in Atlanta following George Floyd's death, two college students—Taniyah Pilgrim from Spelman ...

Three Atlanta police officers sued the city and its former mayor and district attorney, claiming they were wrongfully charged ...

“I am deeply saddened that Joy-Ann Reid, the only African American woman with her own show on MSNBC, will no longer be seen,” former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms told the Daily Beas ...

In response, then-Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and then-Police Chief Erika Shields announced the immediate termination of two officers involved, Mark Gardner and Ivory Streeter, and placed three ...

Georgia U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath filed paperwork on Wednesday to raise money for a run for governor in 2026, becoming the first Democrat to take that step. McBath described her effort as an exploratory ...

Atlanta officials involved in firing three police officers for tasering car occupants during the curfew the mayor imposed after George Floyd’s death are immune from the lawsuit filed by the officers ...

Former Mayor Shirley Franklin, Ambassador Andrew Young, and late former President Jimmy Carter’s grandson Jason Carter are ...

Gov. Burt Jones is widely expected to run. Other Democrats who have been exploring a run include former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, state Sen. Jason Esteves and former DeKalb County Chief ...

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McBath won her congressional race in a redrawn district. Now, she has filed paperwork to raise money for a possible run for governor.