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How Atlanta Politics Led to Cop City
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
24 Mar 2023
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Black Agenda Radio · How Atlanta Politics Led to Cop City

Tea Troutman is a community organizer, urbanist, and cultural critic from Atlanta, Georgia. They are currently a Ph.D. student in Geography at the University of Minnesota working on a dissertation project about Atlanta’s regional urbanism and trap music culture. They join us to discuss how politics in Atlanta led to the Cop City project.

Cop City
Stop Cop City
Atlanta
Black political class

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