Friends of English Avenue to address crime at town hall
The Friends of English Avenue, a group founded after the murder of Kathryn Johnston, will host a town hall meeting in her honor at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at Lindsay Street Baptist Church, 550 Lindsay Street.
The meeting will be moderated by the organization’s co-founders John Gordon and the Rev. Anthony Motley, and feature Atlanta Police Chief George Turner; United State Attorney Sally Yates; councilmembers Ivory Young and Michael Julian Bond and community leader Mamie Moore.
A candle vigil will be held at the former residence of Johnston, who was killed after a botched raid in 2006, following the meeting.
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Ernie Suggs is an enterprise reporter covering race and culture for the AJC since 1997. A 1990 graduate of N.C. Central University and a 2009 Harvard University Nieman Fellow, he is also the former vice president of the National Association of Black Journalists. His obsession with Prince, Spike Lee movies, Hamilton and the New York Yankees is odd.
