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Atlanta’s progressive path across uneven terrain

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By Bill Nigut Verified
| Atlanta Magazine Verified
Roy Wilkins (left), Ivan Allen Jr., and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Photograph by Associated Press Bill Nigut is the host of In These Times, a podcast and radio show for WABE. Illustration by Graham Smith I arrived in Atlanta to begin my reporting job at WSB-TV on Labor Day weekend in 1983. I’d come from Chicago, where one of the last stories I’d covered was the April election of Harold Washington, the city’s first Black mayor.
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We spent an emotional day with one of Atlanta's top immigration attorneys. Here's why he says the system doesn't work.

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By Bill Nigut Verified
| Atlanta Magazine Verified
Immigration attorney Charles H. Kuck Photograph by Stephanie Eley In November 1986, when Atlanta-based immigration lawyer Charles H. Kuck was a first-year law student at Arizona State University, President Ronald Reagan signed what remains to this day the only major immigration reform measure ever passed by Congress. The Immigration Reform and Control Act (also known as the Reagan Amnesty Act) civilly and criminally penalized employers who knowingly hired undocumented workers.
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Michael Thurmond officially enters the Georgia governor's race with a moderate approach

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By Bill Nigut Verified
| Atlanta Magazine Verified
Michael Thurmond Photograph courtesy of Michael Thurmond For more than a year, Michael Thurmond traveled across the state giving dozens of talks to groups of Georgians with barely a mention of his plan to run for governor in the 2026 election. He talked instead about the book he’d written about the life of James Oglethorpe, the British nobleman who’d founded Georgia as an abolitionist colony even though he’d once been an officer in England’s Royal African Slave Company.
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