Tag: Albany
Atlanta’s latest coronavirus updates: Monday, March 23
Over the weekend, two more state senators were diagnosed with COVID-19, Invest Atlanta launched a new loan fund, and Magic City prepares to go virtual. Here’s your Monday morning update:
Peer into a blue grotto at Radium Springs Gardens
The water’s searing blue hue is a result of trace amounts of radium, which was once believed to have healing powers.
In a new memoir, Hamilton Jordan recalls how a visit from Martin Luther King Jr. changed his views
At the age of 17, during the following winter, I saw King’s first march in Albany. Despite pleas in the Albany Herald for its white readers to refrain from glorifying these “trouble-makers and outside agitators,” my father surprised me by inviting me to go downtown with him one Saturday morning to witness King’s first march.
