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Former Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin will speak Friday at the Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Lecture presented by Union Institute & University. Franklins speech at 1 p.m. at the Kingsgate Marriott, 151 Goodman Drive, Corryville, is free to the public. ...
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Dunwoody Mayor Ken Wright, Georgia Governor Deal, and Dunwoody City Council Members Robert Wittenstein and Doug Thompson during the 2011 Georgia rides to the capitol event (Timothy J/Creative Commons) “I saw the quote,” said Kyle Azevedo, CEO of Atlanta-
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While 5 percent of federal contracts worth about $30 billion were to be allocated to female business owners in the U.S. last year, the actual number fell short of that figure. “In the U.S. , government procurement for women is less than 5 percent,”...
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Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin’s request in 2002 to United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta for advice on how the city could address homelessness marked a turning point in the region. That request led to the eight-jurisdiction Regional Commission on...
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About Shirley Franklin
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Shirley Clarke Franklin (born May 10, 1945) is an American politician, a member of the Democratic Party, and, since January 7, 2002, the mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. The 58th mayor of Atlanta, she was the first female to hold the post and became the first black woman to be elected mayor of any major Southern city. Franklin is the fourth black... Full Article
