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'Not My President!' declare anti-Trump protesters in Atlanta Several hundred “Not My President’s Day” protesters marched in Atlanta on Monday, arguing Donald Trump is unfit for the White House. The rally was one of a number taking across the country Monday to coincide with Presidents’s Day. About 400 demonstrators in Atlanta walked peacefully from Arts Center in Midtown to Lenox Mall carrying signs and chanting For Tristan Merediz it was his first protest. He’s 72. “I come from South America,” said Merediz, who has lived in the U.S. for 60 years. “Trumps reminds me of a dictator. The way he...

The coalition of pastors that includes those who led the defeat of Houston's "Equal Rights Ordinance," also known as the "Bathroom Bill", has issued a response to the report that the National Football League is now warning Texas against proposed legislation to keep boys out of girls' restrooms. SB 6, sponsored by Senator Lois Kohlkorst and heavily supported by Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, would establish a statewide uniform standard in all state and local government buildings—including schools—that boys, girls, men and women must use the restroom, shower or locker room of the sex identified on their birth certificate. "Yellow penalty...

Second eaglet pecks its way out; two hatchlings now in the eagles’ nest at Berry College. From Berry College Eagles’ Facebook page: “B9 is finally here! The little eaglet hatched sometime in the wee hours of the morning and is currently snuggled close together with B8! Great screencap by Deanna George.” Earlier photo: That’s eaglet B8 next to the now “pipped” shell of its sibling as B9 is taking steps to exit its shell. From Berry County Eagles’ Facebook page: “This great screencap taken by Rebecca Ahmad shows off our little B8 and the confirmed pip in egg #2!

That Coretta Scott King letter Elizabeth Warren wanted to read on the Senate floor was a total slander of Jeff Sessions. Truth. Coretta Scott King is one of those figures in American life who is virtually immune from all criticism. To even hint that she might have done anything dishonest or untoward will immediately get you attacked as an enemy of minorities and of civil rights - so sainted and sacrosanct a figure is Mrs. King. Without a doubt, that is one of the reasons Elizabeth Warren tried to hide behind Mrs. King's 1986 letter denouncing Jeff Sessions during the...

Jan 26, 2017 // 7:31am As seen on Fox & Friends Actor Shia Labeouf was arrested early Thursday morning for his involvement in a brawl outside his anti-Donald Trump live-stream protest in New York City. Police said Labeouf ripped the scarf off an unidentified 25-year-old man, pushed him to the ground and scratched his face. He faces a misdemeanor assault charge. Labeouf was released several hours later. The protest, in which people chant "He will not divide us" in front of a stationary camera, was set up on the morning of Trump's inauguration. The 24-hour-a-day live-stream takes place at the...

NEW YORK (AP) - Shia LaBeouf wants you to know: “He will not divide us.” For the first few days of Donald Trump’s presidency, the actor has been repeating that sentence into a live camera mounted on a wall outside a New York City museum, usually with a backdrop of everyday New Yorkers chanting and singing along. The livestream from outside the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens is for a participatory public art project LaBeouf and two collaborators intend to have running for the duration of Trump’s presidency. The camera went live the morning of the inauguration, along...

BOSTON (AP) — America's leading poets are averse to Donald Trump, and they're not about to go gentle into that good night. Poetry slams and other literary events are being organized nationwide in the run-up to the president-elect's Jan. 20 inauguration. Some, like this weekend's "Writers Resist" rallies in New York, Boston and 90 other U.S. cities, are overtly in protest. Others are merely an attempt to find a little solace and beauty in verse. "Our country was founded on brilliant writing," said Erin Belieu, an award-winning poet who runs the creative writing program at Florida State University. She hatched...

JONATHAN SWIFT is the world's most well-known practitioner of satire, trailed by Mark Twain and then, unintentionally, the Kardashian women. Swift wrote about eating Irish babies to reduce the devastating effects of the famine in his classic essay "A Modest Proposal." His intent was clear, and he did not need to tell anyone he was joking because his brilliant interplay of words and implication was the work of a genius. Genius, it seems, is at a high premium these days, particularly in the halls of academe and particularly in the city of Philadelphia. In fact, such mediocrity is evident on...

Final tally shows Trump lost popular vote by 2.8 million – but he BEAT Clinton by 3 million votes outside of California and New York Clinton won California by 4.2 million votes and New York by 1.6 million, running up the score in places where she would have won no matter what Outside of those two liberal states, Trump was 3 million votes ahead California alone accounted for more than Clinton's national popular-vote edge Newt Gingrich mocked: 'This is football season. A team can have more yards and lose the game. What matters is how many points you put on...

African American politicians are held to a higher standard. It's not fair, but it's the way it is. Black corporate executives and lawyers also have to work twice as hard to get the same respect and recognition as their peers. It's that old saying I learned at Howard University: "You have to be twice as good to go half as far." In public service, the level of accountability is much higher. And former U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah really let us down. He shamed his office. He failed the public trust. He disgraced his city. His conviction will forever eclipse any...

Starbucks courts millennials with $10 coffee at new Reserve bars By Lisa Baertlein and Tim Baysinger LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp co-founder Howard Schultz's plan to build a new prestige brand is a bet that moving upscale can raise the profile of the world's largest coffee brand with millennials like Megan Sauers. Schultz in April will step down as chief executive to focus on building 1,000 new "Reserve" brand stores. Over time there also will be as many as 30 large, showcase Reserve Roastery and Tasting Rooms in major cities around the world. Starbucks last week announced that...

For many of the more than a million people in greater Philadelphia who backed Hillary Clinton for president, the language of political campaigns is inadequate to describe what they’ve experienced since the election returns came in. Shissler Rec Center in Fishtown with chalk windows, symbolizing the co-opting of swastikas for the concept “Let in the Light.” After Trump's win, Philly tries to cope through stages of grief -- but 'acceptance is not an option' Instead, they’re turning to the language of mourning. “I lost both my parents by the time I was 23. I know what real debilitating grief feels...

Mayor Kasim Reed says he spent some time in the fetal position after Donald Trump won the election. “I think the appropriate joke for me would be, I slept like a baby,” he said. “Sleep, get up cry a little bit, then go back to sleep, sleep get up cry a little bit. So it was tough.” Reed was one of Hillary Clinton's most visible supporters in Georgia. “I was with President Obama in 08. I was with him in 12. And I know what it feels like to go to sleep with your person winning. This time my person...

Armstrong: Shame on 'deplorables' who supported Donald Trump Updated: NOVEMBER 9, 2016 — 3:01 AM EST by Jenice Armstrong, Daily News Columnist @JeniceArmstrong AS OF Daily News press time a little after midnight, we weren't sure who the winner of the 2016 presidential contest was. It appeared that uneducated white male voters were about to have their way. Instead of putting someone into office who was eminently qualified and just happened to be a woman, they went for a reality-TV star as their commander-in-chief. What did they think this was, a video game? Shame on them. Shame on the women...

In recent months, WikiLeaks and I personally have come under enormous pressure to stop publishing what the Clinton campaign says about itself to itself. That pressure has come from the campaign’s allies, including the Obama administration, and from liberals who are anxious about who will be elected US President. On the eve of the election, it is important to restate why we have published what we have. The right to receive and impart true information is the guiding principle of WikiLeaks – an organization that has a staff and organizational mission far beyond myself. Our organization defends the public’s right...

Trump yard sign set on fire in Henry County Ellen Eldridge The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 6:17 p.m Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016 Metro Atlanta / State news A military veteran returned home to a campaign sign on fire in his Henry County yard earlier this week. William Powers told Channel 2 Action News that someone set fire to his Donald Trump sign and ripped up all the other signs he’d had out. So the Republican party volunteer went to the county’s GOP headquarters and asked for the biggest Trump sign available and nailed it to his front porch, Channel 2 reported. “I...

In recent months, creepy clown sightings have made headlines across the nation. But 51 years ago, there was one story, out of Atlanta, that would trump them all. It was bizarre and tragic and a lot more complex than a tale about a prankster with a red nose lurking in the woods of metro Atlanta. One Friday afternoon in 1965, five FBI agents swarmed a bus on the grounds of a traveling carnival in Atlanta, shook a man awake and arrested him. The man they'd sought went by many names. There was the one he told his employers at the...

Armstrong: Stop trying to make Temple attacks about race Updated: OCTOBER 26, 2016 — 10:49 PM EDT Temple officials have promised to beef up security after a recent attack involving teens. by Jenice Armstrong, Daily News Columnist @JeniceArmstrong The TEMPLE attacks were about troublemaking teens - not race. The youngsters who jumped those college students as they walked to campus Friday night are delinquents who need to be put in check before it's too late. They were nothing but miscreants who took out their aggression and misdirected rage on random passersby. Why? Because they felt like wilding out that night....

Tour Atlanta’s Great Model Railroads November is National Model Railroad Month. The Piedmont Division of the National Model Railroad Association (NMRA) celebrates November with a public tour of model railroads in the Atlanta Area. Open House Layouts The Piedmont Pilgrimage tour is open to anyone interested in model railroading. Just come in anytime during the scheduled times for each open house. The cost for entry is free! Children are welcome to attend with proper supervision from their parents. Bring your camera so that you can take home some great memories. We would love for you to join us as we...

CHICAGO (AP) - President Obama said Sunday that he's having a hard time believing some of the rhetoric coming from the top of the Republican presidential ticket, saying that nominee Donald Trump has demeaned women, minorities and immigrants, mocked the disabled and insulted veterans. "I don't need to repeat it - there are children in the room," he said to laughter. Obama then listed an array of groups that he said Trump has insulted during the course of the campaign. He didn't directly address a video obtained by The Washington Post and NBC News that was made public Friday showing...