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Caption The Rev. James Baker tries to convince someone to be vaccinated at St. Paul AME in Macon, Tuesday, April 27. Baker said he hears a lot of people say God will keep them safe from COVID-19. He says some of those have died from the disease. Credit: GPB
Summer is coming to Georgia, and when it does, people will be pushed back indoors and air conditioners will run nonstop. That costs money.
That’s why, starting a little after 7 a.m. Tuesday, cars were snaking around St. Paul AME Church in Macon, forming a line to sign up for help with future power bills from the Macon Bibb County Economic Opportunity Council.
A former White supremacist store and Ku Klux Klan meeting space is being turned into a community center to promote healing
A South Carolina preacher and local resident are turning what once was a Ku Klux Klan meeting place into a community center dedicated to educating and fighting against racial injustice.
Deep in Laurens stands the historic Echo Theater, perched in between diners and cafes bustling with customers and ’50s music that can be heard from the street.
But that building carries a history much darker than the cheerful life that surrounds it.
In 1996, the once segregated movie theater became home to the Redneck Shop, a White supremacist store that sold White nationalist and neo-Nazi paraphernalia, Klans robes and Confederate memorabilia up until its forced closure in 2012.