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The Atlanta Daily World, for decades a cornerstone of the city's African-American culture, no longer employs any local reporters. The newspaper was sold two years ago this month to out-of-town interests by the founding Scott family. Now, publisher Alexis Scott has left, severing the final familial tie to founder W.A. Scott II, who launched the publication in 1928.

Emmeline Southhall Scott (center) is shown surrounded by her sons in a family photograph taken near the time the Atlanta Daily World was founded in 1928. They are (from left) Emel Julius, Aurelius Southall, Lewis Augustus, William Alexander II, Cornelius Adolphous (C.A.), and Daniel Marcellus. The first generation of Atlanta Daily World Scotts also included three daughters. Emmeline Southhall Scott worked for the paper for years and actually introduced her sons to printing.

Alexis Scott stands outside the old abandoned Atlanta Daily World building on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta in March 2014. The newspaaer was sold two years ago to out-of-town interests by the founding Scott family. HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM

Alexis Scott stands outside the old abandoned Atlanta Daily World building on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta in March 2014. The Atlanta Daily World, for decades a cornerstone of the city's African American culture, no longer employs any local reporters. HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM

Former Atlanta mayors Maynard Jackson and Bill Campbell present former Atlanta Daily World publisher C.A. Scott with a marker designating the old Auburn Avenue Building a historic site. Several Scott family members are in the shot, including Alexis Scott, her father W.A. Scott III, Portia Scott and Wendell Scott

This photo taken by W.A. Scott III shows Atlanta's first eight black police officers listening to speakers during NAACP-sponsored program honoring them at Greater Mount Calvary Baptist Church on April 30, 1948. Left to right: Willie Elkins, Willard Strickland, John H. Sanders, Robert McKibbens, Ernest Lyons, Johnnie P. Jones, Henry Hooks, Claude Dixon. (Special photo by W.A. Scott III)

The Atlanta Daily World covered some of the most important moments in civil rights history, including the 1954 Brown Decision, which desegregated public schools.

File photo of Atlanta Daily World publisher C.A. Scott in 1989 (WILLIAM BERRY / Staff)

Undated 1940's photo of C.A. Scott, from Atlanta Daily World archives photo by Griff Davis

Undated 1940's photo of pressman (NO ID) in Atlanta Daily World printing plant from Atlanta Daily World archives

Undated 1940s photo of students touring Atlanta Daily World printing plant from Atlanta Daily World archives

Alexis Scott, publisher of the Atlanta Daily World, as the paper was about to celebrate its 75th anniversary in 2003. (Renee' Hannans/Staff).

Alexis Scott, publisher of Atlanta Daily World, as the paper was about to celebrate its 75th anniversary. She is looking over the shoulder of her nephew Kai Scott, a layout and web assistant, as he works on the upcoming front page. Photo is from Sept. 16, 2003 (Renee' Hannans/Staff).

Alexis Scott stands outside of the old abandoned Atlanta Daily World building on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta on March 12, 2014. The Atlanta Daily World, for decades a cornerstone of the city's African American culture, no longer employs any local reporters. The newspaper was sold two years ago this month to out-of-town interests by the founding Scott family. HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM

The Daily World provided extensive coverage of the Moore's Ford lynching, a case that has never been solved.

Sometimes events surpassed race, including this Atlanta Daily World cover the morning after Pearl Harbor was attacked.

Alexis Scott Reeves, just after being named publisher of the Atlanta Daily World in 1997, sitting in the business office at Atlanta Daily World with a copy of that day's paper (8/14/97). (AJC Staff Photo/Charlotte B. Teagle)

Atlanta Daily World founder W.A. Scott. He founded the paper in 1928 at the age of 26. Within four years he had 50 papers all over the country. He was murdered in 1934 in a case that was never solved.

Alexis Scott's father, W.A. Scott III. Alexis Scott said her father should have been publisher instead of her. He died five years before she took the seat.

A young W.A. Scott III honed his photography skills in the U.S. Army during World War II. In 1945, Scott was assigned to shoot photographs of a liberated concentration camp, Buchenwald. He only snapped a few pictures before putting his camera away. "As the scenes became more gruesome, I put my camera in its case and walked in a daze with the survivors as we viewed all forms of dismemberment of the human body," Scott wrote upon his return.

William Alexander Scott II, Founder and publisher of the Atlanta Daily World. (Special)

William Alexander Scott II and his son, William Alexander Scott III. (Undated photo)

William Alexander Scott III, Atlanta Daily World advertising and public relations manager, in 1984, Photo: Bud Skinner/AJC staff

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Emmeline Southhall Scott (center) is shown surrounded by her sons in a family photograph taken near the time the Atlanta Daily World was founded in 1928. They are (from left) Emel Julius, Aurelius Southall, Lewis Augustus, William Alexander II, Cornelius Adolphous (C.A.), and Daniel Marcellus. The first generation of Atlanta Daily World Scotts also included three daughters. Emmeline Southhall Scott worked for the paper for years and actually introduced her sons to printing.

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