MLK’s home neighborhood needs city’s help to stop violence, leaders say

Standing inside his historic Atlanta church, Bishop Bobby Graham Jr. pointed to a bullet hole in the nearly 100-year-old rondel stained glass window.

The third-generation pastor of the National Divine Spiritual Church said gun violence in the Sweet Auburn neighborhood has continued since the pandemic, especially amid the street takeovers after closing time outside Edgewood Avenue’s nightlife district.

The area just east of downtownis rich in history. It was integral to the foundation of Atlanta’s civil rights movement and draws international visitors to the sites where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. lived, preached and is buried…

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