Richard Fausset
@RichardFausset
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#OnThisDay in 1961, a white mob attacked CORE’s Freedom Riders when they attempted to integrate the “all-white” waiting room at the Greyhound bus station in McComb in southwest Mississippi, yelling, “Kill ‘em! Kill ‘em!” The five riders — Doratha “Dodie” Smith-Simmons, Jerome
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"When I realized that jazz is God, it’s God speaking to me. And my trying to speak back to God – that is jazz." Sonny Rollins speaks to WABE's Joe Alterman on The Upside of Jazz:
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There are legends in jazz — and then there’s Sonny Rollins. They call him the Saxophone Colossus, and for good reason. For nearly nine decades, Rollins has set the gold […]
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Slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers would have celebrated his 100th birthday today. On his 21st birthday, Medgar Evers and six other World War II veterans, including his brother, Charles, tried to vote in Decatur, Mississippi, only to be turned away by an armed White mob.
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Clarinetist Doreen Ketchens playing for her grandson.
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First Minnesota Vice President, Hubert Humphrey, with LBJ at his ranch after election of 1964, the year that both Walz and Harris were born.
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WABE Gold Dome Scramble: Sine Die Listen as Sam Gringlas and I review the messy final days of the 2024 Georgia General Assembly. Topics include sports betting, state budget, elections, film tax credit, compensating the wrongfully convicted & more. #gapol
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Saints game recaps in Louisiana French are second in mind-blowing awesomeness only to Bobby Hebert's postgame musings in Louisiana English. :)
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“Unfortunately, an issue many of our [homeless APS] families are facing is a decrease in property owners willing to accept AH housing vouchers, which reduces the housing inventory that is available.”
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For some Atlanta Public Schools students, school is the most reliable source of shelter and food—and as rents increase, so do the number of homeless students.
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Gary Young passed on today .. . Gary’s pavement drums were “one take and hit record”…. Nailed it so well rip
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Check this out:
@dannyhakim this picture from the NYT seems to indicate the one at the back is against somebody for aggravated assault
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Podcast host, producers and editors are very curious why grand juries have to hand down indictments this late at night.
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The Fulton clerk said the grand jury returned 10 indictments. But remember that this grand jury has been empaneled for weeks. It’s possible the jurors had more than the Trump case to vote on today. https://t.co/SocqnIZW6R
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The criminal justice system needs more possums generally. However, if one showed up in McBurney's Fulton Co. courtroom RN i think the press corps would pounce upon & eat it
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the sweet old world beyond the fulton county courthouse ❤️❤️❤️
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In the immortal words of a very tired local Atlanta reporter on an election night many years ago: “Fulton gonna Fulton….”
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Athens influences everything
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Daytime heat forced a writer with a green thumb to change her routine. She found unexpected pleasures.
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Today in normcore atlanta criminal justice news:
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Young Thug's attorneys say body camera footage showing one of the star's co-defendants engaged in a supposed goat sacrifice could unduly prejudice the jury.
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