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Actor and comedian Anthony “AJ” Johnson, who is most remembered for his role as the loud-mouthed panhandler Ezal in the 1995 comedy hit “Friday,” was found unresponsive in a Los Angeles store earlier this month and later pronounced dead, according to reports.

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Grady High School became Midtown High School in June.

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Scarface, the pioneering rap star of the Geto Boys, has received a life-saving organ transplant from his son after suffering kidney failure last year during a dire battle with COVID-19, according to reports.
The surgery to replace the rapper’s kidney was reportedly a success, according to various social media posts by family members and his closest associates.

Geto Boys rapper Scarface receives life-saving kidney transplant from son

Nurse opens clinic to fill Westside’s medical needs

The entrance to the Emory University School of Law. ERIC STIRGUS/ERIC.STIRGUS@AJC.COM.

Emory Law gets $5M grant from Southern Co. for civil rights center

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Spelman College holds commencement for the class of 2020 at Bobby Dodd Stadium on Sunday, May 16, 2021. Students show off their diplomas after walking the stage at graduation. (Jenni Girtman for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Spelman top of the class in U.S. News rankings

Lenox Square in Buckhead will introduce a new curfew for teens 18 and under beginning Sept. 21. (Alyssa Pointer/alyssa.pointer@ajc.com)

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Fiji gets ready to welcome visitors once again toward the end of the year. (Dreamstime/TNS)

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This AJC file photo from March 2015 shows abandoned and broken-down houses situated next to well-maintained family homes in Atlanta's Pittsburgh community. The 2008-2010 subprime mortgage fraud crisis left nearly half the homes vacant in the Pittsburgh neighborhood. Pittsburgh homeowners, Invest Atlanta, the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Wells Fargo are working to revitalize Pittsburgh. (Photo by J. Scott Trubey / strubey@ajc.com)

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These photographs were taken during an unidentified event during the 1930s at Candler Field (now Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Airport), and includes female aviators from the international women's pilot organization the Ninety-Nines (99s).The event featured a visit from aviation pioneer and first president of the Ninety-Nines, Amelia Earhart. From left to right: Ruth Mohr, Madeline Johnson, Amelia Earhart, Erin Darden, Charlotte Frye. (George Cornett / AJC Archive at GSU Library AJCN030-070a)

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Morgan Hawkins at Whittier Mill Village Park during a performance of "Idle Crimes and Heavy Work."

Labor of incarcerated Black women spotlighted in Atlanta’s Elevate arts festival

FILE - In this Sunday, Dec. 22, 2013 photo, New Orleans Saints' Parys Haralson (98) is seen before an NFL football game against the Carolina Panthers in Charlotte, North Carolina. On Monday, Sept. 13 the San Francisco 49ers announced that Haralson, a former linebacker for the 49ers and New Orleans Saints, had died. He was 37. (AP Photo/Bob Leverone, File)

Former 49ers, Saints LB Parys Haralson dies at age 37

NFL to play Black national anthem at all league games in 2021

12/05/2019 — Atlanta, Georgia — Sunlight peers through a stained glass window in the abandoned chapel space at Fountain Hall on the campus of Morris Brown College, Thursday, December 5, 2019. (ALYSSA POINTER/ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)

Morris Brown secures $500,000 to fix windows in historic Fountain Hall

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Torrance Patrick (left) and Alva Jones hand out sandwiches at a homeless encampment in metro Atlanta. (Courtesy of Torrance Patrick)

OPINION: Kindness of strangers helps fulfill dream of feeding homeless

Carl Bean, preacher, activist and gospel artist who sang the gay pride anthem “I Was Born This Way,” has died at 77, according to reports.

Carl Bean, LGBTQ+ icon and Black preacher who inspired Lady Gaga, dies at 77

The 10 publishers and owners of the Black newspapers that make up Word in Black. (Top Row): Frances “Toni” Draper, publisher AFRO News; Chris Bennett, publisher Seattle Medium; Denise Rolark-Barnes, publisher Washington Informer; Donald M Suggs, publisher St. Louis American; and Elinor Tatum, publisher The New York Amsterdam News.
(Bottom Row): Hiram Jackson, publisher Michigan Chronicle; Patrick Washington, publisher Dallas Weekly; Janis Ware, publisher The Atlanta Voice; Larry Lee, publisher Sacramento Observer; and Sonny Messiah Jiles, publisher Houston Defender.

Black newspapers join forces nationally online

Before a Cobb County School Board meeting begins, Gregory Farino expresses his perspective as teachers, parents and local residents gather to voice their opinions on critical race theory and what Cobb County teaches and the reviews initiated by the school board Thursday, June 10, 2021. (Jenni Girtman for The Atlanta Journal Constitution)

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