(3-24-26) BHN Talk Rsdio - Nexstar-Tegna merger alarming, Da’Quain Johnson story different, Metro Atlanta housing in crisis

Atlanta housing boom includes elected officials as home-owner landlords

In this episode of the Black Headline News Talk Radio Show, with host, Julia Dudley Najieb, Cheryl Smith and Brigitte Jones, the news hosts discuss breaking news:

(The Wrap) California, New York and six other attorneys general filed an emergency motion to block the recently approved NexstarTegna merger. The FCC’s media bureau approved Nexstar’s $6.2 billion acquisition of rival TV station owner Tegna on Thursday.

(Capital B) Angelica Johnson is forced to recount the images and sounds of her son, Da’Quain Johnson, being attacked by a police K-9 dog and being shot three times by police last month.  In the month since the Feb. 18 shooting of the 32-year old  father by Grand Rapids, Michigan police, Johnson remains skeptical of everything the police and local media have reported about her son’s death.  

Atlanta housing crisis affecting vulnerable populations

Metro Atlanta is undergoing a housing crisis, which has been fueled in part by corporate investors and left unchecked by Georgia state lawmakers. Many of these lawmakers are real estate investors themselves, an investigation by Capital B and Type Investigations has found.

Atlanta has long been called the Black Mecca, and through the early 2000s, the city boasted a reputation as an affordable city with a growing and prosperous Black middle class. In recent years, however, the lack of affordable housing has pushed thousands of Black people to the margins — or out of the city entirely.

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