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    Default Atlanta school named after a Confederate general will be renamed to honor Hank Aaron

    An Atlanta school that had been named after a Confederate general will soon be renamed after Braves legend and Hall of Famer Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron.

    The Atlanta Board of Education unanimously voted last week to approve the renaming of Forrest Hill Academy to Hank Aaron New Beginnings Academy. The change will take effect next school year.

    Forrest Hills Academy was named after Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan leader, according to CNN affiliate WSB.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/an...ocid=Peregrine
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    We missed seeing Henry in Boston by two years.
    The Braves played their last season here in 1952. Then it was off to Milwaukee and then Atlanta after that.
    Henry came up in 1954.

    I actually did see him play at Fenway in a Braves-Red Sox Jimmy Fund Game
    and again as a Brewer at the end of his career.
    [The Brewers were still an American League team back then.]
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    Hammerin' Hank had the shortest, sweetest swing ever...
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    Quote Originally Posted by guno View Post
    An Atlanta school that had been named after a Confederate general will soon be renamed after Braves legend and Hall of Famer Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron.

    The Atlanta Board of Education unanimously voted last week to approve the renaming of Forrest Hill Academy to Hank Aaron New Beginnings Academy. The change will take effect next school year.

    Forrest Hills Academy was named after Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan leader, according to CNN affiliate WSB.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/an...ocid=Peregrine
    Is/was Hank Aaron from Atlanta?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt Dillon View Post
    Is/was Hank Aaron from Atlanta?
    Hank Aaron was with the Braves from 1954–1974.
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    Quote Originally Posted by guano View Post
    An Atlanta school that had been named after a Confederate general will soon be renamed after Braves legend and Hall of Famer Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron.

    The Atlanta Board of Education unanimously voted last week to approve the renaming of Forrest Hill Academy to Hank Aaron New Beginnings Academy. The change will take effect next school year.

    Forrest Hills Academy was named after Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan leader, according to CNN affiliate WSB.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/an...ocid=Peregrine
    And this will make liberals happy for.... shit, they're already miserable again.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    Hank Aaron was with the Braves from 1954–1974.
    Okay, so..that's cool. Pretty much his whole career.

    There's a lot of racist and dumb and inbred blacks in Atlanta. They are a minority, though.
    In black majority Atlanta. There's a lot of people there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by guno View Post
    An Atlanta school that had been named after a Confederate general will soon be renamed after Braves legend and Hall of Famer Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron.

    The Atlanta Board of Education unanimously voted last week to approve the renaming of Forrest Hill Academy to Hank Aaron New Beginnings Academy. The change will take effect next school year.

    Forrest Hills Academy was named after Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan leader, according to CNN affiliate WSB.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/an...ocid=Peregrine
    Good and some vindication for Hank who was confronted with a horrendous type of bigotry.

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