Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms says she wont seek reelection
SATURDAY, MAY 08, 2021
Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, a Democrat, an early supporter of President Joe Biden who was touted as a potential running mate, said Friday she would not seek reelection this year because she no longer has the fight in her heart to continue in the job for another four years.
China has urged the United States to bring to justice the suspect who last week killed eight people-including six women of Asian descent-in a shooting spree in Atlanta, Georgia.
Asian American leaders fear conflict with China will fan racist backlash
THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 2021
WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden has sought to blunt a reported surge in anti-Asian bias incidents by ordering the federal government not to use xenophobic language to describe the coronavirus and calling accounts of "vicious hate crimes" during the pandemic "un-American."
Asian Americans see shooting as a culmination of a year of racism
THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 2021
As Helen Kim Ho learned that a White man with a self-described sex addiction was charged with killing eight people - including six Asian women - at spas in the Atlanta area on Tuesday, she imagined the stereotypes of Asian women that must have run through his head.
Eight killed, including six Asian women, in Atlanta-area massage parlor shootings
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 2021
Shootings at three Atlanta-area massage parlors that unfolded within an hour on Tuesday left eight people dead, and authorities said a 21-year-old man in at least one incident has been arrested.
Latest death puts Atlanta at epicenter of protests
TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 2020
ATLANTA - Relatives of Rayshard Brooks - the 27-year-old man fatally shot by an officer outside a Wendy's here last week - called for law enforcement policy changes during an emotional news conference Monday as hundreds of demonstrators marched in the streets to protest another black man's death at the hands of police.