Tagged southerners on new ground

southerners on new ground

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed

Atlanta leaders give mixed grades on Mayor Kasim Reed’s LGBT record

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed has seven years’ tenure under his belt, and the field is stacked for the next city leader to take over his office. As the election nears, Georgia Voice asked a few LGBT activists, and R...

Tee Tee Dangerfield enters the 50 Yard Line sports bar in Atlanta.

Police release surveillance videos from night of transgender Atlanta woman’s murder

College Park police released surveillance videos showing transgender Atlanta woman Tee Tee Dangerfield just hours before she was found murdered. One video shows Dangerfield entering the 50 Yard Line sports b...

Black LGBT-led safety initiative Tiger’s Eye Collective launches in Atlanta

Tip Brooks remembers the day last year they were driving down Interstate 75 and noticed a whole lot of commotion. The Ku Klux Klan was in Stone Mountain, Georgia, for its annual convention. “I saw a black...

LGBT rights group SONG kicks off rescue mission

It’s no secret there are racial disparities in the criminal justice system. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People reported that one out of every 100 African-American women is in prison....

City honors life of late Fulton County Commissioner Joan Garner

Several hundred mourners gathered on Saturday to honor the life of the late Fulton County Commissioner Joan Garner, who died of breast cancer on April 18. Garner was a beloved community figure and the first ope...