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#1. On Thursday, it was announced that this Georgia-based HBCU was awarded $100 million in the largest single gift to a Black college in the U.S.
It’s Spelman College.
Spelman said that it would use $75 million to endow scholarships. The rest of the money will be used for other purposes, including developing an academic focus on public policy and democracy and improving student housing, a sore point in recent years among Spelman students.
#2. The Atlanta Falcons are planning a second interview for the recently vacated head coaching position with which popular NFL coach?
It’s Bill Belichick.
Belichick made the Falcons his first known interview on Monday since leaving the New England Patriots. Belichick won a record six Super Bowls in his 24 seasons with New England. He will be the first candidate to have a second interview with Atlanta.
#3. According to the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System, about 20% of Georgia’s nearly ________ child removals during a five-year period reported housing as one of the multiple reasons.
It’s 31,000.
Between fiscal years 2018 and 2022, DFCS reported “inadequate housing” as the sole reason for removing a child in more than 700 cases, according to an analysis by WABE and ProPublica.
#4. Earlier this month, Georgia received $60 million in EPA grant funding for clean energy buses, with $20 million of the grant going to which metro Atlanta county?
It’s DeKalb.
With help from the EPA’s Clean School Bus Grant program, over 27,000 electric buses are expected to soon be on the road across 37 states.
It will still take a few years and higher funding to deliver on the priority of entirely replacing fueled buses with electric ones. The first 50 electric buses for DeKalb are expected to be released in the fall of 2025.
#5. Local residents and an animal-rights group are protesting plans for a monkey-breeding facility in southwest Georgia, which, in turn, plans to sell the animals to ___________ and pharmaceutical companies.
It’s Universities.
Opponents on Tuesday urged the Bainbridge City Council to block plans by a company called Safer Human Medicine to build a $396 million complex that would eventually hold up to 30,000 long-tailed macaques that would be sold to universities and pharmaceutical companies for medical research. The company says it plans to employ up to 263 workers.
