Closer Look: Stone Mountain’s Mayor; Orlando; And More

City of Stone Mountain DDA

Tuesday on “Closer Look with Rose Scott and Jim Burress”:

  • 0:00: Rose Scott and Jim Burress talk about the massacre in Orlando, Florida and its aftermath;
  • 1:41: Georgia State professors Sally Wallace and Mark Rider talk about a study which found single mothers in Georgia who participate in the federal government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) experience greater income mobility than males, whites and people with disabilities;
  • 13:25: Ryan Roemerman, executive director of the LGBT Institute at the Center for Civil and Human Rights, talks about the center’s planned event to remember victims of the Orlando massacre;
  • 18:47: Stone Mountain Mayor Patricia Wheeler talks with Jim Burress and Rose Scott as part of an ongoing look at issues with area mayors;
  • 34:36: In “StoryCorps Atlanta,” Katherine Samford talks with her daughter, Lexie, and her mother, Sharon, about Katherine’s adoption from Vietnam in 1974;
  • 39:01: Molly Samuel reports on wildlife habitat corridors;
  • 40:50: Gil Robertson, journalist, author and critic, Akil Dupont, independent film producer and Clayton State professor, and Dianne Ashford, TV and film producer, discuss whether or not there are too many slave narratives in today’s TV and film.