Dr. Maurice Hobson is an associate professor of African American Studies and Historian at Georgia State University.
In 2017 he published his book “The Legend of the Black Mecca: Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta” and joined “Closer Look” host Rose Scott in-studio to talk about his work.
As a follow-up to that conversation, Dr. Hobson recently joined Rose for another conversation — tracing the economic evolution of Atlanta’s historic black neighborhoods, which aired as a three-part series on Closer Look.
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