Mayor Bottoms announces council tasked with combatting gun violence
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ATLANTA - A little more than a week after she called on state politicians to react to a surge in gun violence in Atlanta, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced a new Anti-Violence Advisory Council to address the problem.
The council is comprised of 14 people non-profit leaders, former law enforcement leaders and city councilmembers tasked with finding solutions to surges in crime across Atlanta.
The first meeting of the council will be on May 19.
Members of the council include:
Sally Yates: Partner, King & Spalding Law Firm; Special Matters & Government Investigations (Former Deputy U.S. Attorney General
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“Your Voice is Power” experience featuring Pharrell’s new song, “Entrepreneur,” encourages students to examine racial equity while learning coding.
Amazon, Pharrell Williams’ education equity nonprofit YELLOW, and the Georgia Institute of Technology announced a new educational collaboration called “Your Voice is Power” to encourage middle and high school students to share their voice on equity while learning to code new music remixes. The “Your Voice is Power” collaboration includes five teaching modules with lesson plans that teach coding while kick-starting meaningful conversations among students and their teachers about the importance of racial justice. This collaboration concludes with a competition for students to share their own voices through remixing Pharrell’s new song “Entrepreneur” using computer code on Georgia Tech’s learn-to-code-through-music platform, EarSketch. “Your Voice is Power” is the latest initiat
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Pharrell s non-profit organization
YELLOW , has teamed up with Amazon and the Georgia Institute of Technology for a new collaboration to encourage middle and high school students to share their voice while learning to code new music remixes.
The collaboration, âYour Voice is Powerâ includes five teaching modules with lesson plans that teach coding while kick-starting conversations among students and their teachers about the importance of racial justice.
âYour Voice is Powerâ is Amazon Future Engineer, Amazon Music, and Georgia Tech latest initiative to expand computer science education to more students from underserved communities and groups currently underrepresented in tech.
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Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), Pharrell Williams’ Nonprofit YELLOW and Georgia Tech have reported a new educational collaboration called “Your Voice is Power” to encourage middle and high school students to share their own thoughts on equity while learning to code new music remixes. The collaboration has five teaching modules that have lesson plans to teach coding and to simultaneously kickstarting important conversations within students and their teachers of the importance of racial justice. Towards the close of the competition, students share their own voices through remixing Pharrell’s new song “Entrepreneur” utilizing computer code on Georgia Tech’s coding music platform EarSketch.