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House Armed Services amendment blocks funds for Fort Gordon name change

  • July 23, 2025

It was Fort Gordon, then it was Fort Eisenhower, now it’s Fort Gordon again. But there are efforts to fight against that change at Augusta’s U.S. Army base along with the other recently renamed military installations. Who was Fort Gordon named after? Originally, Augusta’s Fort Gordon honored Lt. Gen. John Brown Gordon, one of Confederate

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Black-owned lender turns big bank grants into community loans

  • May 19, 2025

About five years ago this week, George Floyd, a Black man in Minneapolis, was murdered by a white police officer. After the murder and the nationwide movement it inspired, several big banks, including JP Morgan Chase, Citibank, Bank of America and Wells Fargo, announced that they’d invest millions of dollars in small, Black-owned banks across

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