24 Aug,2020 | Black Enterprise Magazine, Business
A white police officer in Georgia was terminated from the Gwinnett County Police Department after a video surfaced of him tasing an unarmed Black woman outside her mother’s home last week, according to WSB-TV. The announcement was made on Friday by the Gwinnett County...
19 Aug,2020 | Black Enterprise Magazine, Business
A Georgia State Patrol trooper was arrested last week and charged with felony murder after he fatally shot a Black man during an attempted traffic stop earlier this month, according to CNN. The trooper, 27-year-old Jacob Gordon Thompson, who was arrested last Friday...
6 Aug,2020 | Black Enterprise Magazine, Business
Georgia’s largest school district has reversed course on in-person learning after 250 employees either tested positive for coronavirus or are in quarantine due to possible exposure. Gwinnett County Public School teachers were pre-planning their classrooms August...
13 Jul,2020 | Black Enterprise Magazine, Business, Uncategorized
Georgia Senator and Atlanta Dream co-owner Kelly Loeffler is doubling down on her stance against the Black Lives Matter movement. According to Yahoo News, Loeffler published a letter to WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert last week denouncing the league’s plan to...
7 Jul,2020 | Black Enterprise Magazine, Business
A heavily armed Black militia group made a statement by marching through Stone Mountain Park in Georgia near Atlanta on July 4, insisting on the removal of the giant Confederate monument that’s prominent at the site, according to Reuters. A spokesman for the...
