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    In this photo provided by student Hannah Watters, students crowd a hallway, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020, at North Paulding High School in Dallas, Ga. The 30,000-student suburban Paulding County school district in suburban Atlanta resumed classes Monday with 70% of students returning for in-person classes five days a week, days after the principal at North Paulding announced some members of the football team had tested positive for COVID-19. The district says it is encouraging mask use, but isn't requiring it. (Hannah Watters via AP)
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    Crowded school hallway photos rightly drew attention to flawed policy
    April 28, 2020 Gainesville - A child cries as a medical professional attempts to collect a nasal swab at a drive-through COVID-19 testing site at Good News Clinic in Gainesville on Tuesday, April 28, 2020. Northeast Georgia Health System partnered with Good News Clinic tested over 300 Hall County adults and children for COVID-19. Cars stretched in lines around the Good News Clinic. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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    Opinion: A pediatrician’s concerns about reopening schools
    Diego Ternero stacks and boxes finished face masks for shipping at Georgia Expo on Thursday, April 23, 2020, in Suwanee. The company has pivoted from sewing curtains to sewing cloth face masks. As business restrictions ease, companies are preparing to open, but one key ingredient to safety has been hard to find, personal protective equipment. CURTIS COMPTON / CCOMPTON@AJC.COM
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    Georgians and businesses: Commit to the Safety Promise
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    A sign encouraging the wearing of masks and keeping social distancing stands at a street corner Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020, in downtown Nashville, Tenn. The wearing of face coverings is required in most public indoor and outdoor situations in Nashville due to an increase of COVID-19 cases. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
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    COVID-19 does not exempt the young
    Policing is a greatly misunderstood profession, both by the people who receive their service and by those who provide funding for that social service. To reform police departments in a meaningful way requires a comprehensive approach that includes not measuring police effectiveness based heavily on crime statistics. (File photo via Pixabay.com)
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    Opinion: Comprehensive police reform and beyond
    Protesters show their support for Black Lives Matter in Portland, Oregon, last week. In addition to concerns about their treatment by police and other authorities, minority communities have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19 and the economic impact. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
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    Opinion: United around achieving racial equity
    Motorists take part in a caravan protest in front of Senator John Kennedy's office at the Hale Boggs Federal Building asking for the extension of the $600 in unemployment benefits to people out of work because of the coronavirus in New Orleans, La. Wednesday, July 22, 2020. The benefits are set to expire on July 25 and the caravan of about a dozen cars was organized by UNITE HERE Local 23, Step UP Louisiana. (Max Becherer/The Advocate via AP)
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    Opinion: Promising signs, worries in local jobless rate
    A Juul vape arranged for a photograph in Brooklyn, New York, on July 6, 2018. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Gabby Jones
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    Can ‘sin taxes’ help budget woes?
    FILE - In this June 30, 2020, file photo, people wait in line at a walk-up testing site for COVID-19 during the new coronavirus pandemic, in Miami Beach, Fla. As coronavirus cases surge in hard-hit Florida, so do the turnaround times for test results. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
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    Opinion: Bringing more fight against COVID-19
    Johns Creek will seek a $103,573 reimbursement from Fulton County for its costs to purchase supplies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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    Opinion: Ga. health workers’ plea to state officials
    FILE - In this June 24, 2015 file photo, a statue of Alexander Hamilton Stephens, the Confederate vice president throughout the American Civil War, is on display in Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif is calling for the removal of Confederate statues from the U.S. Capitol as the contentious debate over the appropriateness of such memorials moves to the halls of Congress. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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    Opinion: John Lewis should represent Ga. in D.C.’s Statuary Hall
    A health worker takes a swab for a COVID-19 test at a Primary Health Care Center in Sant Sadurní d'Anoia, Catalonia region, Spain, Friday, July 31, 2020. Spain reported its highest number of new coronavirus infections in almost three months on Thursday as authorities aim to contain new outbreaks. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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    Opinion: COVID-19 proves need for universal medical coverage
    Photo illustration. Growling, yelilng, stress, anger. Credit: PEXELS
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    Opinion: When ‘growling’ is good for you
    The U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. Coronavirus relief programs are due to run out in the coming weeks and months. (Dreamstime/TNS)
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    Opinion: $600 jobless benefit costly in more ways than one
    Bone marrow donor Tim Crawford of Adairsville, Ga., hugs Rosalind Beard after the two met each other for the first time at Loyola University Medical Center's annual Bone Marrow Transplant Celebration in Maywood, Ill. Crawford, a full-time student and father of three adult children, donated his stem cells to help the suburban Chicago mother of four fight Hodgkin's lymphoma.
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    Opinion: More Black bone marrow donors needed
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    Minority-owned businesses need lift, too
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    Opinion: Removing D.C. red tape to improve housing situation
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    Opinion: Ga. needs to improve handling of unemployment claims
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    Opinion: What I owe John Lewis for his brave work
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    Opinion: Honoring a legend who fought for equality for all
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    Opinion: Two men who showcased our beloved community
    Protesters gather on Federal Plaza Thursday, July 23, 2020, after a collection of Chicago activists groups announced they are filing a federal lawsuit against the Chicago Police Department, Fraternal Order of Police, and the federal government, in Chicago. The lawsuit also asks a judge to prevent agents in Chicago from making arrests or detaining people without probable cause and to require agents to identify themselves and their agency before taking either action and explain why someone is being arrested. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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    Opinion: Think about steps to build a more-just America
    200722-Atlanta-Darrell Watkins drives the caisson carrying C.T. Vivian past the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church during a memorial procession Wednesday afternoon July 22, 2020. Ben Gray for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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    Opinion: Telling the story of two remarkable lives
    Gevin Reynolds and U.S. Rep. John Lewis
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    Lessons that John Lewis taught me
    United States Magistrate Judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania Joseph F. Saporito Jr. hands a small American flag to a new citizen during a drive-up naturalization ceremony outside the William J. Nealon Federal Building and United States Courthouse on North Washington Avenue in downtown Scranton, Pa. on Friday, July 17, 2020. (Christopher Dolan/The Times-Tribune via AP)
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    Opinion: Black immigrant lawyer’s hopeful for America
    While participating in the Freedom Rides, C.T. Vivian and John Lewis were arrested in Mississippi. Convicted, they were shipped to the notorious Parchman Prison.
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    Opinion: Reflecting on the lives of two peaceful warriors
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