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Andrew Young getting rare Emmy Award

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Published Feb. 21, 2011 at 12:00 a.m.

Former Atlanta Mayor and Former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young has won an Emmy Award for lifetime achievement.Young will get the award Friday in New York at a black-tie dinner at The Sheraton Hotel and Towers in his honor. He is being recognized for being one of the first African-Americans to integrate television and for his use of television in support of the Civil Rights Movement.The Trustees Award is the highest honor given by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. It is given in

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Washington Watch: Parties come together for Rep. John Lewis

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Published Feb. 19, 2011 at 12:12 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- Who can get political opposites such as Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell and Democrat Harry Reid, Democratic Rep ...

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FedEx spending $55M on Norcross facility

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Published Feb. 18, 2011 at 12:00 a.m.

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FedEx Ground on Friday detailed plans for growth in Norcross, Ga., revealing it will spend $55 million to build a facility there.As first reported by Atlanta Business Chronicle in January, FedEx Ground will develop a 50-acre site in Norcross, where it plans for a 215,000-square-foot distribution center. On Friday, the company said its initial workforce at the new facility is projected to include 240 full-time and part-time employees and 75 independent contractors.FedEx Ground’s Norcross

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Lewis gets nation's highest civilian honor

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Published Feb. 16, 2011 at 1:15 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- John Lewis first visited the White House and President John Kennedy in 1963 as a 23-year-old son of sharecroppers intent on changing the world ...

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Carter to Speak at GSU Graduation

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Published Feb. 16, 2011 at 12:46 a.m.

Former President Jimmy Carter will speak at Georgia State University’s graduation ceremony this spring ...

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MLK comic book lands in Egypt's Tahrir Square

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Published Feb. 15, 2011 at 11:29 p.m.

Reprints of a 1950s-era comic book about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. have been credited with providing inspiration for the Egyptian protests that forced a peaceful leadership change ...

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Congressman John Lewis Awarded Medal Of Freedom

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Published Feb. 15, 2011 at 7:50 p.m.

President Barack Obama is awarding the nation's highest civilian honor to a diverse group of recipients, including a former president, a Georgia congressman, a basketball and a baseball legend ...

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Congressman Lewis Receives Presidential Honor

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Published Feb. 15, 2011 at 7:39 p.m.

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(WSB Radio) The dean of Georgia's congressional delegation, a former president, a basketball legend, a late optometrist and a poet were among the 15 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom Tuesday ... In a White House ceremony, President Barack Obama said the honorees represent "the best of who we are and who we aspire to be.'' ... Congressman John Lewis, a civil rights icon, said this week that when the president got him on the phone to tell him he was being honored, it was an

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