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Can Atlanta's new mayor revive America's 'black mecca'?

  • Written by Maurice J. Hobson, Assistant Professor of African-American Studies, Georgia State University
imageKeisha Lance Bottoms.AP Photo/John Bazemore

The Atlanta mayoral showdown between Keisha Lance Bottoms and Mary Norwood was a political battle 30 years in the making.

Atlanta was poised to elect its first white mayor in decades. However, Bottoms, who is black, claimed a narrow victory with a few hundred votes more than her opponent. Norwood, who is...

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