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☆ A ‘Skate Migration’ Is Changing How Atlanta Rolls
  + stars: | 2024-05-02 | by ( James Thomas | Gem Hale | More About James Thomas | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
To parse the different regional roller skating styles in metro Atlanta rinks, watch the traffic patterns. Skaters in the New York-New Jersey-style bobbed steadily and pivoted in tight circles at the center of the crowded rink. A critical mass of skaters doing Chicago’s brand of fluid, James Brown-inspired footwork, or JB skating, carved a jet stream between the crowds. It was the warm-up party for the Jivebiscuit Skate Family Reunion, one of the longest-running national gatherings of Black roller skaters. The 17-year-old event, held in February, is one of several annual parties that have made Atlanta a skating hub, bolstered by a steady, decades-long influx of Black residents from other cities.
Persons: James Brown Organizations: Atlanta Locations: Atlanta, Smyrna, Ga, New York, New Jersey
☆ Searching for Martin Luther King Jr.’s Past in His Old Atlanta Neighborhood
  + stars: | 2024-01-14 | by ( Nneka M. Okona | Photographs Gem Hale For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
FOR ANYONE RAISED in or around Atlanta, Martin Luther King Jr. is first and foremost associated with the city where he was born and raised. We Atlantans take pride in the fact that Dr. King grew up on Auburn Avenue, the downtown thoroughfare cutting through the neighborhood of Sweet Auburn. On my travels throughout the South, I’ve seen traces of King everywhere—on street signs and in civil rights museums—but it’s been many years since I’ve followed his footsteps in my own city. So on a recent winter day, I went looking for the roots of King’s legacy in an integral part of Black Atlanta.
Persons: Martin Luther King Jr, King, it’s, I’ve Organizations: Auburn Locations: Atlanta, Sweet Auburn, Black Atlanta
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