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Fight to turn Black Georgia area into a city highlights the roadblocks for self-sustaining Black communities
Kathryn Rice, head of the Concerned Citizens for Cityhood of South DeKalb Inc. is leading a movement to turn the area known as “South DeKalb” into its own freestanding city. If successful, Greenhaven would become the second largest city in Georgia, trailing only Atlanta, and it would be 87 percent Black, which dwarfs Atlanta’s percentage […]
Rich residents of small town seek to secede from poor predominantly black residential area
The more affluent members of East Baton Rouge Parish are seeking to create a new city. The formation of the new city, St. George, would place a border around the much wealthier and whiter part of the parish. The findings come in light of a new report commissioned by the Baton Rouge Area Chamber and […]