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Last Tuesday, national leaders gathered in Lithonia, Ga. to observe and partake in the funeral of the famed civil rights icon Coretta Scott King. Replete with hefty doses of pomp and spectacle, the nation watched with rapt attention as political and civil rights leaders paid their final respects to one of the great women of the 20th century...

Author: By Stephen C. Bartenstein | Title: King’s Ransom | 2/10/2006 | See Source »

...hear evidence. Corruption at the jail was supposedly so prevalent that Brown campaigned on auditing the books, firing the culprits and replacing three decades of cronyism. "Clean it up," his supporters had shouted into bullhorns the year before as they drove slowly through the towns of Decatur and Lithonia, taking Brown's homespun, outspoken style and reformist message to predominantly black neighborhoods. He was the kind of man who spoke his mind, but he did not think anyone would kill him for it. Says Phyllis: "The scary thing about this is anything is possible. It could have been somebody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Georgia: Who Shot The Sheriff? | 2/5/2001 | See Source »

...three men, gets paid for one. She has a mate who thinks parenting stops at conception. She can't do much about the job, but she can unload the sexual parasite who doesn't seem to understand he has to do his share just like other men! ADIE SHIMANDLE Lithonia, Georgia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 4, 1996 | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...people also want heroes, and Cleland offers voters a life story full of sacrifice and struggle. He was a fresh-faced 6-ft. 3-in. former high school basketball star from Lithonia, Georgia, when he ignored the advice of family and friends and volunteered for combat duty in Vietnam. He lost two legs and an arm to a grenade explosion and, as he describes in his brutally honest memoir, Strong at the Broken Places, came home to battle indifferent medical care, bouts of depression and social rejection. Among the low points: going out on a date and, while crossing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GEORGIA PLAYBOOK | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

Avery Harper Lithonia, Georgia AOL: CORAYH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 27, 1995 | 2/27/1995 | See Source »

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