Herman “Skip” Mason, the former president of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, is expected back in an Atlanta area court Friday, seeking reinstatement as the head of the fraternity. Mason was removed from his position in April and suspended from the nation’s oldest black Greek letter organization, coinciding with allegations of financial mismanagement. Attorneys for Mason [...]
Atlanta’s Historic Auburn Avenue Faces Uncertain Future
June 13, 2012 | Posted by
The ghosts of Auburn Avenue still haunt the storied Atlanta street where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was born and black wealth thrived for decades. Today, the street is a shell of its former self, the bustling mix of banks, night clubs, churches, meat markets and funeral homes long gone, replaced with crumbling facades [...]
