"The GOAT Black City" The Official: ATL Discussion Thread
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sh*t is sad. Black folks sold the "American Dream" of owning a home, when all that equity game is smoke and mirrors.
Most the white folks in places like Dunwoody got their homes when the govt was giving whites tons of assistance so they had 30k mortgages and then inflation and stuff gained a sh*t ton of equity while blacks had to look on the outside in. Thats why I`m big on doing what makes sense for your personal situation when it comes to buying vs renting, because the days of gaining 100-200k in equity are over being that the these white folks can just straight tell you "we appraised your property for 40k
" and you can't do anything about it.
AVXL
Laughing at you n*ggaz like “ha ha ha”
Where y'all goons taking your ladies for Valentines Day?
AVXL
Laughing at you n*ggaz like “ha ha ha”
Lol i copped tickets to go to vegas for her upcoming b day so she straight
I wish I lived around more black people.
Dawg, I'm still scrambling this late lol smh. Might take a quick road trip to north GA or figure out something random. shyt I still gotta get a gift, with money lookin funny
BUT...
For my brehs in relationships that want to treat their ladies to a nice night or give them an add'l Valentine's Day outing, or even brehs that want to meet some nice single young ladies, yall might need to check this group out KING. They'll be at The Loft on the 29th. Shea butter sister type crowd gone be there fa sho.
They just dropped a new album: http://www.thecoli.com/threads/king-we-are-king-stream-discussion-thread.396070/
AVXL
Laughing at you n*ggaz like “ha ha ha”
- JOEFF DAVIS
- GIANT PROBLEM: Rev. Larry Hill says the closing of the Giant Food grocery store along Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway surprised nearby residents who relied on location for fresh produce and other items.
Customers still pull into the parking lot of the Giant Food grocery store off Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway in northwest Atlanta’s Grove Park. Most are unaware that the store is, as of last week, now closed.
Giant Food was one of only two grocery stores off the busy Bankhead corridor that stretches from Northside Drive to the city limits. And to many residents, it was the only nearby location that offered a range of produce and healthy items. There is no Kroger, no Publix — the area is technically a food desert. Most shoppers are forced to meet their needs at corner stores, which offer little in the way of fruits and vegetables.
“The area is a food desert,” says Charles Moore of the Emory Urban Health Initiative, a six-year-old effort aimed at improving the health of “diverse and underserved populations in Atlanta.” “This just exacerbates the situation.”
planted an urban garden next to Giant Food so area residents would have access to fresh produce. But with the store's closing, the urban garden will have to move.
Moore says Giant Food's owner, Sam Goswami, was trying to keep the store in operation, but didn’t anticipate its closing, either. According to the garden’s Facebook page, the owner lost the property in foreclosure. Efforts to reach Goswami were unsuccessful.
“It’s really unfortunate this has happened,” Moore says. “One less resource the community has.”
Rev. Larry Hill, the pastor at Word of God Ministries in Bankhead, says some nearby residents are only now hearing the news about the grocery store’s closing, adding that people are “very shocked.”
Hill, who has owned a day care center in the area for more than 20 years, says he is tired of seeing the community fall behind. Hill says he sees businesses and schools closing all the time and thinks it’s time for the city to intervene.
Hill and other pastors want to meet with Mayor Kasim Reed and elected officials to try to launch an “effort with stakeholders to try to stabilize Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway.” He says the pastors are also exploring how they can support a community grocery store.
In the meantime, Hill has offered UHI a new space for the urban garden, at Northwest Youth Power, his youth ministry located about a mile away by the Bankhead MARTA station.
Moore hopes the garden’s new location will attract people from a nearby Grady Memorial Hospital clinic and engage children from Northwest Youth Power. Moore also hopes UHI can partner with local corner stores to help them provide the community with healthier options.
Dr. Boyce Watkins Event this Thursday in Atlanta
The 10 Commandments of Black Economic Empowerment
The 10 Commandments of Black Economic Empowerment
Yo anybody know of a great apartment complex looking in buck head or midtown preferably around a lot of other single professional blacks.
Like to stay under 1500-1600
Like to stay under 1500-1600
you might as well just buy a home on the Westside lol
Check out the black men simulator until the 26th
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