May 21, 2013

Atlanta’s Auburn Ave., Once the Center of Black Wealth, in Decline while City Prospers

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*(Via ABC News) – 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, [...]