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60 Voices: Sam Massell and Andre Dickens on city government Solving problems with conference calls, not confrontation? That remains a goal today.
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During his term as Atlanta mayor from 1970 to 1974, the city’s first Jewish mayor,
Sam Massell, oversaw the campaign to create MARTA; began construction of the Omni, the city’s first enclosed sports coliseum; increased contracting opportunities for minority- and women-owned businesses; and appointed the first woman member of the Atlanta City Council. After losing reelection to Maynard Jackson, the city’s first Black mayor, the real-estate executive led the Buckhead Coalition, a business group, until 2019. Now 93, Massell lives in Buckhead with his wife, Sandra.
Frederick Douglass, and statues that still speak the truth
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A Rescue Plan for Black America (Ep. 453)
March 3, 2021 @ 11:00pm Listen now:
New York Times columnist Charles Blow argues that white supremacy in America will never fully recede, and that it’s time for Black people to do something radical about it. In
The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto, he urges a “reverse migration” to the South to consolidate political power and create a region where it’s safe to be Black. (This is an episode of the Freakonomics Radio Book Club.)
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Stephen DUBNER: So, Charles, you have said that you didn’t want to write a “race book.”