Update at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday
Some students at Spelman College aren’t happy about the selection of Atlanta’s black female mayor as this year’s commencement speaker.
The students at the city’s historically black women’s college say they believe Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is in favor of gentrification, they told WSB-TV. Pricing poor people out of available housing “doesn’t help the black people rise up,” Spelman student Alexi Dickerson said.
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