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Yahoo
23-03-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Atlanta Science Festival wraps up in Piedmont Park
The Atlanta Science Festival wrapped up Saturday in Piedmont Park. Their Exploration Expo was the grand finale of the two-week celebration of science and technology. Georgia Natural Gas and Delta Community Credit Union, both WSB Family 2 Family partners, participated in the festival. 'We've had kids of all ages stopping by, young scientists and scholars learning about kinetic energy, energy storage. They're building helicopters over here having fun,' Georgia Natural Gas's Maurice Baker told Channel 2. Delta Community Credit Union presented a $15,000 check to Science ATL so the group can continue to hold events like this one. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] TRENDING STORIES: This Georgia city is one of the most overweight in the U.S., new study shows Man charged with trying to kidnap child from Acworth Walmart Suspended UGA lineman arrested after crashing car into apartment complex, report says [SIGN UP: WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
Yahoo
18-02-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
A life of service: Civil rights activist Xernona Clayton remembers nearly a century of work
For nearly a century, civil rights activist Xernona Clayton has dedicated her life to serving her community. Clayton, 95, helped the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. plan marches. She was there when Coretta Scott King learned her husband had been fatally shot at the Lorraine Hotel in April 1968. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] Channel 2′s Karyn Greer joined Clayton and staff at Georgia Natural Gas on Wednesday to share stories about her fight for civil rights, including her work with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the National Urban League and other organizations. 'We need the presence of someone like Ms. Clayton here today probably more than ever. So many of the things that resonated in previous decades seem to resonate even now,' Maurice Baker with Georgia Natural Gas said. Over the decades, she has received hundreds of honors and accolades. RELATED STORIES: At 93, Xernona Clayton is still fighting the fight for peoples' rights Civil rights activist, broadcast pioneer receives statue in downtown Atlanta New documentary focuses on life of civil rights leader Xernona Clayton In 2023, the City of Atlanta unveiled a statue of her in the Xernona Clayton Plaza on West Peachtree Street. It sits down the street from a hotel she was thrown out of during the civil rights movement. 'I kind of wish we could come together as a varied group of people. But sometimes I'm having the same ideas. Just because you have one color or another doesn't mean we can't think alike sometimes or share the thinking alike on an issue. We could do better, and I wish we would,' Clayton said. Even now, she's still serving her community. On her birthday every year, she still hands out food and clothes to the homeless. [SIGN UP: WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
