by Lauren | Dec 30, 2020 | Opinion, Politics
Georgia has always been a battleground state. The Revolutionary War started in Georgia when a couple of renegades broke into a powder magazine in Savannah in 1775. Less than 100 years later, in 1861, Georgia would secede from the same Union she helped to form. The...
by Lauren | Aug 23, 2020 | Featured
Check out our first Pretty Southern script In this pandemic time when COVID has closed all the local theatres and comedy clubs, I took a virtual sketch comedy writing class with Laugh Lab. Comedian Lace Larrabee started this enterprise (check out my first standup from...
by Lauren | Jul 30, 2020 | Featured
Five dynamic women leaders from the Metro Atlanta area will be honored at the first annual SHERO Awards by the Greater Atlanta Democratic Women (GADW). Originally planned as an in-person celebration, the event will be held virtually on Friday, Aug. 28 at 7 p.m. EST....
by Lauren | Jul 28, 2020 | Featured
Our friends at Consume Media shared this footage from John Lewis filmed at the Davis Academy in 2017. The Atlanta-based production company posted this to Instagram and thanks to founder, Leo Falkenstein, for allowing us to share it with our community here on Pretty...
by Kyiah Oliver | Jul 15, 2020 | Opinion
Breonna Taylor was killed by three plain-clothes police officers in her home on March 13, 2020. She was in bed, unarmed, and shot fatally after the officers entered her home using a no-knock search warrant. She was an emergency medical technician and 26 years...
by Lauren | Jul 9, 2020 | Opinion
Editor’s Note – a brief intro to the powerful words by Quay Bowen. We connected with Quay through a marketing group on social media. After hearing her story, we asked Quay to share her experiences with our audience here at Pretty Southern. It has been edited...
