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Memorial Drive is a long road that travels from Stone Mountain to Downtown Atlanta in the U.S. state of Georgia. In 2000, a part of Memorial Drive was named " Cynthia McKinney Parkway," [ 1 ] but the naming has come under scrutiny since her primary defeat in 2006.
9 lut 2021 · Learn the complete history, naming, and purpose of Memorial Drive; a major road connecting Atlanta to the Memorial at Stone Mountain.
16 lut 2024 · The bicyclist and pedestrian advocacy group (formerly Atlanta Bicycle Coalition) reports this week that plans for a legitimately safe, two-way protected bike lane are moving forward on Memorial Drive that would link downtown Atlanta with the BeltLine’s Eastside Trail.
19 sty 2022 · Named for the controversial memorial on the side of Stone Mountain—it’s a straight shot, after all, between the Georgia State Capitol and the South’s most famous rock—Memorial Drive isn’t what it used to be.
16 maj 2018 · 13 photos: Memorial Drive’s impressive metamorphosis today. Along one of Atlanta’s most rapidly changing corridors, a photographic tour from downtown to Reynoldstown. Construction bustles...
28 lip 2020 · Moving through her mother’s history in the deeply segregated South and through her own girlhood as a “child of miscegenation” in Mississippi, Trethewey plumbs her sense of dislocation and displacement in the lead-up to the harrowing crime that took place on Memorial Drive in Atlanta in 1985.
5 maj 2021 · In her memoir Memorial Drive, Natasha Trethewey tells the harrowing story of her family’s unraveling, her mother’s murder, and her subsequent struggle to cope. When Trethewey was nineteen, her stepfather, Joel, shot and killed her mother in cold blood outside of her Atlanta apartment.
