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JULY 2020 • VOL. 14 — NO. 7
Buckhead Reporter ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
K-pop fans cheer musicians’ Black Lives Matter activism
► Worth Knowing: A salute to 4th of July horses p18
Protests prompt calls for racial dialogue in schools and neighborhood
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AROUND TOWN
A neighborhood advocate steps aside, but not out P6 COMMUNITY
An Air & Space Museum at PDK? P20
PHIL MOSIER
Lovett School alumnus Harrison Rodriguez speaks to a huge crowd outside the Governor’s Mansion on West Paces Ferry Road June 7, drawing attention to prejudice in private schools.
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Buckhead CID leader to become new Coalition president BY JOHN RUCH
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In a major shakeup in the neighborhood’s business and civic organizations, Buckhead Community Improvement District Executive Director Jim Durrett will become the new president of the Buckhead Coalition. Both group’s staffs will merge, and combine offices with two other key groups,
Livable Buckhead and the Buckhead Business Association. Durrett will retain his role as Buckhead CID executive director. At the Buckhead Coalition, he replaces founding president and former Atlanta mayor Sam Massell, whose retirement after 32 years, effective June 30, prompted the reorganization. Durrett already has another prominent See BUCKHEAD on page 23
BY JOHN RUCH johnruch@reporternewspapers.net
Many protests inspired For more about by the porace and local lice killing of policing, George Floyd see p. 15-16. have come to Buckhead over the past month, with organizers frequently citing the neighborhood’s reputation as a wealthy, White and conservative enclave as a reason to demonstrate there. And it’s having an impact, with some civic and school leaders calling for dialogue about race and racism. See PROTESTS on page 14
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