To many Atlantans it smacked of capricious cronyism when Maynard Jackson Jr., the city's black mayor, appointed A. Reginald Eaves as commissioner of public safety in 1974
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The Nation: The Brothers and Angela
Sometimes I think this whole world is one big prison yard Some of us are prisoners, the rest of us are guards Lord Lord, so they cut George Jackson down Lord Lord, they laid him in the ground.
‘This Is It’ pulls in record $2.2 mil
Even after his death, Michael Jackson is breaking records. “It wasn’t really like going to the movies, it was more of going to a V.I.P.
Elizabeth Taylor tweets praises of ‘Michael’s genius’ in ‘This Is it’
It is an understatement to say that Elizabeth Taylor likes the new Michael Jackson movie “This Is it.” “To say the man is a genius is an understatement.
Jackson’s ‘This Is It’ hits record stores
A newly-released Michael Jackson album is drawing devoted fans back to stores today, ahead of a week of celebrations in memory of the pop singer.
Katherine Jackson replaces lawyers in estate battle
Michael Jackson’s mother fired the lawyers helping her fight for control of her son’s estate, but her new lawyer missed a key hearing where the judge gave more power to the men she is opposing. Katherine Jackson replaced lawyers Burt Levitch and Londell McMillan with Adam Streisand, a lawyer known for his expertise in Los Angeles probate cases.
FAA probes plane’s landing on Atlanta airport’s taxiway
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating how an international flight into Atlanta’s major airport landed on a taxiway instead of a runway early Monday. FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said Delta Flight 60, from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, was cleared to land about 6:05 a.m.
Blackface ‘Jackson Jive’ skit shocks Connick
Movie star and singer Harry Connick Jr.
Relatives, Chicago officials attend beaten teen’s funeral
The funeral of a Chicago teenager whose beating death was caught on video was attended Saturday by scores of family members, officials and community leaders, including the Rev.
Michael Jackson tapes reveal his soul, former adviser says
Michael Jackson feared his father so much he would faint or vomit sometimes when his father entered the room — even when the pop singer was an adult, according to a book written by a former Jackson confidant. “The Michael Jackson Tapes” includes Jackson talking about his fear of growing old, his relationship with children, his friendships with Madonna and Brooke Shields, and his remarkable shyness around people that made his surround himself with mannequins.