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Sunday, May 19th, Morehouse College handed out five-hundred degrees.

It was the 1-hundred and 29th graduation ceremony for the nation’s only all-male historically black institution.

The last time a sitting president made a commencement address in Georgia was in 1938 when Franklin Delano Roosevelt spoke to summer graduates at the University of Georgia.

Today the social media world has been flooded with commentary about President Barack Obama’s commencement speech.

The embattled Atlanta VA Medical Center has a new permanent director for the first time since 2011. Former VA Deputy Assistant Secretary for Labor-Management Relations, Leslie Wiggins, has been appointed to head the center. The new leadership comes after an internal audit linking three patient deaths in the past two years to mismanagement in the center’s mental health programs and a visit by federal lawmakers.

Almost a year ago, the Georgia Aquarium asked the federal government for permission to import 18 Beluga whales from Russia. But the Aquarium still hasn’t gotten a response.

The decision is in the hands of the Fisheries Section of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Aquarium officials say they expected a decision late last year about 30 days after the public comment period ended.

Suburbs are becoming home to more and more of our nation’s poor.

A Brookings Institution study released Monday finds nowhere is that trend more evident than in metro Atlanta.

As a whole, researchers found an average increase in poverty of 64% in the nation's largest 100 metro areas.  

In Atlanta, the figure is close to 159%, making it the the largest increase of any US city.