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Posted inAtlanta
Coca-Cola to Spearhead Talks on U.S. Global Leadership in the South
Coca-Cola Co. over the next year is set spearhead a series of discussions around the South with policy makers, business leaders and other key stakeholders on U.S. competitiveness, international aid […]
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Atlanta Officially Chosen as a 2026 World Cup Host City
Atlanta made the cut as a World Cup host city Thursday, an anticipated win that nonetheless generated excitement among boosters and soccer fans already gearing up to welcome the world. […]
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Software Firm Acquires Atlanta’s Urjanet to Accelerate Decarbonization of the Power Sector
Arcadia, a Silicon Valley software firm that helps companies and consumers monitor energy usage and assess their carbon footprints, has acquired Atlanta-based Urjanet to deepen its access to utility data. Urjanet […]
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Mayor Dickens Signals New Openness to International Community
Atlanta’s new mayor heralded a new posture of collaboration with the city’s international community Tuesday at the relaunch of what he said would become an annual luncheon at City Hall […]
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Georgia State Grants 1,000 Free Passports to Boost Study Abroad, Wins National Award
Georgia State University has been honored with a national award for its Free Passport Initiative, which since February 2021 has remove the first hurdle for more than 1,000 students seeking […]
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World Trade Center Savannah Reflects on 10 Years Fostering Global Growth
Editor’s note: This commentary was written by Leigh Ryan, vice president of World Trade Center Savannah and Foreign-Trade Zone 104 Time flies when you’re having fun, and we at the World […]
Posted inBooks, Culture, United States
Books 2021: A White Journalist Crosses the Racial Divide
Book: Black Like Me Author: John Howard Griffin Review by: Trevor Williams, managing editor, Global Atlanta and publisher, Grounded Global Media. If 2020 was a year to reflect on white […]
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Books 2021: First Black Cops in Jim Crow-Era Atlanta Foreshadow Black Lives Matter Demands
Book: Darktown: A Novel Author: Thomas Mullen Review by: Paul Varian, retired CNN executive producer “Darktown” by Thomas Mullen is a brilliantly woven template for the police procedural — a […]
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Books 2021: Women, Not Wallflowers, Helped Raise Up the United States
Book: Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation Author: Cokie Roberts Review by: Michael Manely, family law attorney at The Manely Firm P.C. As it turns out, women of the […]