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...going to five hours of class, and you’re doing the funky chicken in the Yard.” As were many others; looking over at an elderly woman shimmying, wedged between two “Donkey Show” performers wearing black platform boots, red bell-bottomed suits, and giant black afro wigs, President Faust laughed, “Now, there’s a picture for ‘The Crimson.’”According to Paulus, the Common Spaces initiative reflects what she sees as one of the most important purposes...
...stay in the black, the Rogerses cut all worker hours 10% at the beginning of August, which saved jobs but lowered the wage dollars available to the community. Rogers isn't even the worst off - his cheap buffet can still fit into many tight budgets. O'Neil says other restaurant owners in town tell her they're down 25% in 2009. Big Al's diner closed in February...
...there ever was a Black political machine, it was headed by Maynard Jackson, who was elected as mayor at age 35 in 1973, served consecutive terms and a single term in the 1990s. He endorsed every winning candidate before his death in 2003. Now the "Jackson machine" is largely history, Atlanta political insiders tell TIME, its membership dispersed since Jackson left office...
...city's public housing. But the tactic of busing poor African-American voters from the projects is no longer viable, even if there were a machine dedicated to it. The projects have been bulldozed or turned into mixed-income developments over the past two decades, Meanwhile, Atlanta's black mayors encouraged affluent whites to move into blighted or vacant areas of the city, and the real estate boom of the 1990s made it happen. In the past decade, Atlanta has elected whites to a number of city-wide offices, including the council president before Borders...
Jackson built a broad program to push city contracts to black-owned businesses. But the current crop of candidates - black and white - put balancing the city's books and stemming rising crime at the top of their agenda. "Atlanta is broke and broken," says Borders spokeswoman Liz Flowers. "This is about fixing a broken city...