The city of Atlanta will officially honor its former Mayor Shirley Franklin with a street and park renamed after the esteemed ...

But I will be, no doubt, disappointed, as Mayor Andre Dickens will probably chalk up a decisive victory against a gadfly or two. Dickens is roundly well-liked, although an opponent could take him up ...

Former Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin ... Ms. Franklin, who played a key role in the first Maynard Jackson administration and has been involved in every mayoral administration since, is known ...

He lost a bid for a second term to Maynard Jackson, his vice-mayor, who would become Atlanta’s first Black mayor and who had deep ties in the city’s African American community. The loss didn ...