Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta – In a 2018 Georgia election race marred by blatant examples of voter suppression and voting machine irregularities the NAACP Georgia State Conference partnering with Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law won an injunction against the use of the controversial voter regulating software called Exact Match. In the ruling which challenged Georgia Secretary … Read more
Oakland News Now – As Atlanta Preps For Super Bowl LIII, A Polo Shirt From Super Bowl XXXIV Not much talked about during the preparation for Super Bowl LIII is the fact that Atlanta hosted a Super Bowl 19 years ago: Super Bowl XXXIV, January 30th, 2000. Super Bowl XXXIV itself was an excellent game … Read more
Oakland News Now – Police Called On Black Man In Atlanta For Being With White Kids In Cobb County, Georgia, a man who has a kids-sitting service and happens to be African-American, watched in horror as a white woman followed him while he was with the children he was entrusted with watching. Corey Lewis is … Read more
Oakland News Now – Hurricane Michael Storm Over Fayetteville GA With Winds Up To 40 MPH And the winds picked up as I was making the video-blog. There was a flash-flood warning for Fayette County, of which Fayetteville, Georgia is within. That was set to end at 11:40 PM EST, and it has. Stay tuned. … Read more
Oakland News Now – Hurricane Michael Near Fayetteville GA Down To Category 1 Storm Oakland News Now Note: this post demonstrates the full and live operation of the latest version of an experimental mobile media video-blogging system network that’s part of a new approach to the production of media. The uploaded video is from a … Read more
Oakland News Now – Visit To Five Guys Burgers Peachtree City Georgia Five Guys Burgers was made famous by President Barack Obama’s visit to a franchise in Washington, D.C., May 29th 2009. The food ingredients are said to be fresh, and so I gave them the “Mom” test, as my Mom stopped in with me, … Read more
On Thursday, October 4th at 10:11 AM EST, Chris Evans issued this tweet on Twitter in Fayetteville, Georgia: Officially wrapped on Avengers 4. It was an emotional day to say the least. Playing this role over the last 8 years has been an honor. To everyone in front of the camera, behind the camera, and … Read more
Oakland News Now – Is Georgia GOP Trying To Willie Horton Stacey Abrams? What About Brian Kemp And Racism? The Georgia GOP is running an ad that appears to put the African American Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Stacey Abrams in a dark set of images that carried the implication that blackness is somehow undesirable. This is … Read more
Oakland News Now – A Barn And Land For Sale In Fayette County, Georgia Oakland News Now Note: this post demonstrates the full and live operation of the latest version of an experimental mobile media video-blogging system network that’s part of a new approach to the production of media. The uploaded video is from a … Read more
The Georgia NAACP issued a statement in praise of Randolph County Board of Elections decision to vote against a consultant proposal to close 7 of 9 voting polls in a nearly-all Black district, less than 3 months before the November midterm elections. “Voter suppression happens in many ways, some subtle and some direct –our job … Read more
Oakland News Now – For Atlanta Super Bowl 53 Volunteers, a special message. Hi Atlanta! I am Zennie Abraham. I have the unique place in life of being a Super Bowl Host City Bid Director (for Oakland), media at the Super Bowl, a Super Bowl attendee with a ticket, and a Super Bowl Volunteer. I … Read more
Lauren Simmons has scored a hat-trick, of sorts: she’s not only the first full time New York Stock Exchange Trader, she’s the first African American woman to be a full time NYSE trader, and the youngest at 23 years old. In an interview with Channel 11 the NBC Affiliate in Atlanta, Lauren Simmons says “It … Read more
Oakland News Now – Zennie62 meets Leonard Presberg In Fayetteville, GA at Gremlin Growers. A great coffee and beer place at 101 Glynn St South on the Square! We talk politics and coffee and Stacey Abrams. In general, Fayetteville, and by extension Fayette County, are republican strong-holds. That said, the changing demographics forced by the … Read more
Oakland News Now – Heading to Kroger’s in Atlanta / Fayetteville, Georgia to buy, of all things, Tylenol, I ran into a local acquaintance who calls himself “Ray N”. I’ve met and interviewed “Ray N” before on Zennie62 on YouTube, years before, and when I paid a visit to the local Office Deput store to … Read more
“Marvels’ Avengers: Infinity War” made movie box office history was made when it shattered all opening records, surpassed the $2 billion mark at the global box office in just 48 days and remains the fourth highest-grossing film of all time. Now, “Marvels’ Avengers: Infinity War”, ten-years in the making and filmed at Pinewood Studios Atlanta … Read more
ATL Next! Upon arriving at Atlanta Hartsfield Jackston Airport’s North Terminal this morning, this vlogger made a video update of progress associated with what is called the “ATL Next” project. The vlog gave part of the picture of what ATL Next is; let’s look at the full picture, if only to gain an understanding of … Read more
Oakland News Now – The $6 billion ATL Next Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson Airport Expansion Project is progressing. The centerpiece of the giant upgrade are two terminal-length canopies that are (by this vlogger’s measure) 30 percent complete. Already, the intent of the addition can be seen and felt: it’s raining now and yet far less water has … Read more
FAYETTE COUNTY, Ga.- Is Fayette County GA ground zero for Democrats in 2018? Can Georgia finally become a state with a governor who’s a Democrat, let alone it’s first black female leader? Is 2018 the year Georgia finally turns blue? Since this vlogger’s spending most of his time in Fayette County Georgia for his Mom, … Read more
via IFTTT United Airlines B737-800 SFO – ATL Flight Flies By Lightening Storm At Night. This United Airlines flight made it from San Francisco to Atlanta in just under 4 hours, and even though it was late leaving SFO Airport by a full hour. The trip was an experience in the mixing of travel comfort … Read more
A “Living While Black” incident in Atlanta’s Newman, Georgia. Oakland can rejoice on this Independence Day for not being the only one of two America cities to be media-decorated with the distinction of being a place where a black person can be called for just plain living. Now, the Atlanta suburb of Newman, Georgia joins … Read more
