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We must all pull together to make our schools better
The article on Southwest DeKalb not making AYP shows how flawed the No Child Left Behind concept is. I’m not a fan of the whole process but as it stands right now, this is the standard that our...
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This woman literally wore her affection for Barak Obama on her sleeve to welcome the president and his family to Ghana. Atlanta couple just had to be in Ghana for Obama’s visit
The night Barack Obama was elected President, my husband Frank said, “Honey, the day he sets foot on the African continent, we gotta be there, because that continent is going to rock! Can you imag...
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Chuck Burris History-making mayor of Stone Mountain dies
Chuck Burris, who became Stone Mountain’s first African-American mayor and lived in the house of the former Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, has died. He would have been 58 years old on March 5.
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Matthew Clarke Mitchell Matthew Clarke Mitchell
Matthew Clarke Mitchell, 8 years old, of Decatur died Jan. 1, 2009, after complications from surgery. Matthew was born on October 25, 2000, at DeKalb Medical Center to P. Mitch & Donna-Marie M...
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