Editor’s note: This commentary was written by Dr. Tara Stoinski, CEO and chief scientist of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund. The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund is celebrating a quarter-century headquartered in Atlanta. From our modest offices nestled behind the orangutans at Zoo Atlanta, we’ve had a major global impact. We’ve seen mountain gorillas – the […]
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2020 in Review: Global Atlanta Founder Honored by Georgia Tech’s Ivan Allen College for Africa Series
It all started with a chance conversation in 2011 that stemmed from a transatlantic trip. Global Atlanta founder and publisher emeritus Phil Bolton was reporting from Belgium when he found out that the Royal Museum of Central Africa in Tervuren would be packing up items from its vast trove of African art and sending them on tour […]
StationSoccer Founder Awarded Order of the British Empire
Atlanta’s Sanjay Patel was among the few overseas Britons who woke up to the new year with a new honor from his country of origin. Mr. Patel, director of strategic projects with Soccer in the Streets, this week was awarded the Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for his “services to […]
Books 2020: The Deeper, More Riveting Story of Paul Revere’s Ride and the American Revolution
Book: The British Are Coming Author: Rick Atkinson Review by: Jim Reed, President, YKK Corp. of America “The regulars are coming out!” is what Paul Revere is actually reported to have cried when warning militia of the advance of a fast-moving British force coming to confiscate weapons in Concord. This is only one of hundreds […]
Books 2020: The Individualistic Human Condition
Book: Frost Author: Thomas Bernhard Review by: Oliver Gorf, executive director, Goethe-Zentrum Atlanta It required a pandemic to encourage enough soul searching to finally make me read this novel by the great Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. For decades I had kept my distance from his work, shying away from it for fear it could affect […]
Books 2020: Using Innovation to Tap Post-Corona Opportunities
Book: Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity Author: Scott Galloway Review by: Albert M. Hodge, Jr., retired economic development professional and president of Hodge Consulting Services Even within his subtitle, serial entrepreneur and NYU Business School Professor Scott Galloway hints that he will identify winners and losers as the U.S. economy prepares for the post-pandemic era. […]
Books 2020: A Family History of the Sugar Trade in Barbados and Beyond
Book: Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire Author: Andrea Stuart Review by: David Cutting, retired international banking executive and honorary consul of Barbados in Georgia This summer I completed my reading of this excellent pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial history of Barbados. It was written in the context of the origins […]
Books 2020: Climbing the ‘Second Mountain’ Toward Success, Fulfillment
Book: The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life Author: David Brooks Reviewed by: Jonathan Addleton, former U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia and current Rector/President of Forman Christian College in Lahore, Pakistan I read The Second Mountain by best-selling author and New York Times columnist David Brooks on the long journey from the U.S. to Pakistan in September to […]
Global Atlanta’s 20 Most-Read Stories of 2020
If any year posed the temptation to chase web traffic by reporting in more detail on politics, 2020 was it. But even throughout a contentious election year, rocked by racial-justice protests and a raging pandemic, Global Atlanta resisted the temptation to be consumed by the domestic stories that dominated the news cycle. Of […]
Books 2020: How to Understand Global Populism
Book: Populism: A Very Short Introduction Authors: Cas Mudde and Crístobal Rovira Kaltwasser Review by: Kirk Bowman, Rise Up & Care Professor of Global Development and Identity, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Tech; Founder and Director, Rise Up & Care “Populism” tends to pop up in political conversations these days, yet the concept […]
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