A new historical marker on Macon's Poplar Street describes the slave market on the site of the brick building in the left background of the image which at one time recently was a yoga studio.

A new historical marker on Macon's Poplar Street describes the slave market on the site of the brick building in the left background of the image which at one time recently was a yoga studio.

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A federal judge has found leaders of the Georgia Department of Corrections in contempt of a 2019 agreement GDC made with attorneys for people incarcerated in the state’s most extreme solitary confinement unit.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars in congressionally directed spending is making its way down to Macon, where some of that money is helping grow emergency medical services. 

New historic markers unveiled in Macon on Monday will serve as the anchor points to a new digital presentation of the city’s Black history. 

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