A memorial service in honor of civil rights activist Ed Amir Charles Brown Jr. will be held at the Woodruff Arts Center on Sunday, Jan. 15, from 3-5 p.m. A reception will he held from 5:30-7 p.m. Brown was a community developer who also became an art aficionado. Congressman John Lewis, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, former Mayor Shirley Franklin, Atlanta City Councilman C.T. Martin and others are scheduled to attend.

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Austin Walters died from an overdose in 2021 after taking a Xanax pill laced with fentanyl, his father said. A new law named after Austin and aimed at preventing deaths from fentanyl has resulted in its first convictions in Georgia, prosecutors said. (Family photo)

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