Atlanta, GA
Sal Frelick shines in debut as Brewers edge Braves
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[1/23]Jul 22, 2023; Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; Atlanta Braves right fielder Ronald Acuna (13) steals second base before the tag by Milwaukee Brewers second baseman Brice Turang (0) in the first inning at American Family Field. Mandatory Credit: Benny Sieu-USA TODAY Sports
July 23 – Sal Frelick had three hits and drove in the tying and go-ahead runs in his major league debut to pace the Milwaukee Brewers to a 4-3 comeback victory over the visiting Atlanta Braves on Saturday night.
Austin Riley hit his sixth homer in the past five games for the Braves.
Frelick’s sacrifice fly in the eighth put Milwaukee ahead to stay. Willy Adames opened the frame with a double down the left field line off Joe Jimenez (0-3), who relieved Collin McHugh to start the inning. Adames advanced on an error on Andruw Monasterio’s one-out fielder’s choice when the throw to third got away from Riley. Frelick’s liner to right scored Adames, who slid home ahead of the throw.
The Braves loaded the bases in the ninth off closer Devin Williams. Eddie Rosario singled with one out. Pinch runner Forrest Wall, also in his first big-league game, stole second and third. After Orlando Arcia struck out, Michael Harris II and Ronald Acuna Jr. walked to load the bases, but Williams struck out Ozzie Albies for his 25th save in 27 opportunities.
Joel Payamps (4-1) tossed a scoreless eighth for the victory.
Frelick also made a pair of leaping catches at the wall in right in the top half of the sixth to prevent extra-base hits.
Riley staked the Braves to a 3-0 lead in the third with his 22nd homer of the season.
Acuna opened the third with a single up the middle and Albies walked. Riley then sent an 0-1 pitch from Adrian Houser 422 feet to center.
Braves starter Allan Winans, making his big-league debut three weeks before his 28th birthday, allowed just two hits before running into trouble in the fifth.
Frelick singled to right and Owen Miller doubled. Frelick scored on Brice Turang’s sacrifice fly to center and Blake Perkins followed with an RBI single to make it 3-2, chasing Winans.
Milwaukee tied it at 3 in the sixth off Michael Tonkin when Jesse Winker drew a one-out walk, Monasterio singled and Frelick followed with an RBI single to left.
Houser matched his career high with 10 strikeouts, giving up three runs on six hits in six innings. Winans allowed two runs on five hits in 4 1/3 innings, striking out five and walking one.
–Field Level Media
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Atlanta, GA
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Atlanta, GA
The National Center for Civil and Human Rights expands at a critical moment in U.S. history
ATLANTA (AP) — A popular museum in Atlanta is expanding at a critical moment in the United States — and unlike the Smithsonian Institution, the National Center for Civil and Human Rights is privately funded, putting it beyond the immediate reach of Trump administration efforts to control what Americans learn about their history.
The monthslong renovation, which cost nearly $60 million, adds six new galleries as well as classrooms and interactive experiences, changing a relatively static museum into a dynamic place where people are encouraged to take action supporting civil and human rights, racial justice and the future of democracy, said Jill Savitt, the center’s president and CEO.
The center has stayed active ahead of its Nov. 8 reopening through K-12 education programs that include more than 300 online lesson plans; a LGBTQ+ Institute; training in diversity, equity and inclusion; human rights training for law enforcement; and its Truth & Transformation Initiative to spread awareness about forced labor, racial terror and other historic injustices.
These are the same aspects of American history, culture and society that the Trump administration is seeking to dismantle.
Inspiring children to become ‘change agents’
Dreamed up by civil rights icons Evelyn Lowery and Andrew Young, the center opened in 2014 on land donated by the Coca-Cola Company, next to the Georgia Aquarium and The World of Coca-Cola, and became a major tourist attraction. But ticket sales declined after the pandemic.
Now the center hopes to attract more repeat visitors with immersive experiences like “Change Agent Adventure,” aimed at children under 12. These “change agents” will be asked to pledge to something — no matter how small — that “reflects the responsibility of each of us to play a role in the world: To have empathy. To call for justice. To be fair, be kind. And that’s the ethos of this gallery,” Savitt said. It opens next April.
“I think advocacy and change-making is kind of addictive. It’s contagious,” Savitt explained. “When you do something, you see the success of it, you really want to do more. And our desire here is to whet the appetite of kids to see that they can be involved. They can do it.”
This ethos is sharply different from the idea that young people can’t handle the truth and must be protected from unpleasant challenges but, Savitt said, “the history that we tell here is the most inspirational history.”
“In fact, I think it’s what makes America great. It is something to be patriotically proud of. The way activists over time have worked together through nonviolence and changed democracy to expand human freedom — there’s nothing more American and nothing greater than that. That is the lesson that we teach here,” she said.
Encouraging visitors to be hopeful
“Broken Promises,” opening in December, includes exhibits from the post-Civil War Reconstruction era, cut short when white mobs sought to brutally reverse advances by formerly enslaved people. “We want to start orienting you in the conversation that we believe we all kind of see, but we don’t say it outright: Progress. Backlash. Progress. Backlash. And that pattern that has been in our country since enslavement,” said its curator, Kama Pierce.
On display will be a Georgia historical marker from the site of the 1918 lynching of Mary Turner, pockmarked repeatedly with bullets, that Turner descendants donated to keep it from being vandalized again.
“There are 11 bullet holes and 11 grandchildren living,” and the family’s words will be incorporated into the exhibit to show their resilience, Pierce said.
Items from the Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. collection will have a much more prominent place, in a room that recreates King’s home office, with family photos contributed by the center’s first guest curator: his daughter, the Rev. Bernice King. “We wanted to lift up King’s role as a man, as a human being, not just as an icon,” Savitt explained.
Gone are the huge images of the world’s most genocidal leaders — Hitler, Stalin and Mao among others — with explanatory text about the millions of people killed under their orders. In their place will be examples of human rights victories by groups working around the world.
“The research says that if you tell people things are really bad and how awful they are, you motivate people for a minute, and then apathy sets in because it’s too hard to do anything,” Savitt said. “But if you give people something to hope for that’s positive, that they can see themselves doing, you’re more likely to cultivate a sense of agency in people.”
Fostering a healthy democracy
And doubling in capacity is an experience many can’t forget: Joining a 1960s sit-in against segregation. Wearing headphones as they take a lunch-counter stool, visitors can both hear and feel an angry, segregationist mob shouting they don’t belong. Because this is “heavy content,” Savitt says, a new “reflection area” will allow people to pause afterward on a couch, with tissues if they need them, to consider what they’ve just been through.
The center’s expansion was seeded by Home Depot co-founder and Atlanta philanthropist Arthur M. Blank, the Mellon Foundation and many other donors, for which Savitt expressed gratitude: “The corporate community is in a defensive crouch right now — they could get targeted,” she said.
But she said donors shared concerns about people’s understanding of citizenship, so supporting the teaching of civil and human rights makes a good investment.
“It is the story of democracy — Who gets to participate? Who has a say? Who gets to have a voice?” she said. “So our donors are very interested in a healthy, safe, vibrant, prosperous America, which you need a healthy democracy to have.”
Atlanta, GA
Metro Atlanta weekend weather: Temperatures on rise

ATLANTA – North Georgia will stay warm and mostly sunny through the coming week, with temperatures creeping upward but not reaching the extreme heat much of the country is facing, according to FOX 5 Storm Team Meteorologist Alex Forbes.
What they’re saying:
“We’re moving up a little bit higher,” Forbes said. “I think now this is roughly where it’s going to stay though for most of our 7-day forecast. So even though the temperatures will continue to sneak up a little bit higher in the next few days, the humidity not so much. It’ll be a mostly sunny and seasonably warm afternoon with this high pressure really squashing the chance of rain here locally.”
Looking ahead, Forbes said much of the U.S. will deal with dangerous heat, but Georgia won’t see the worst of it.
“We are likely for several days in a row to run warmer than average,” he explained. “Here’s the deal. We’re not gonna go too far above average here in North Georgia — maybe by a couple of degrees. Where there’s going to be a bigger difference, and the heat is more excessive and well above average, would be back to our north and west. So we’re going to be spared sort of the worst of that. We’re just getting a reminder that we’re not quite fully into the fall season just yet.”
Afternoon highs will range from the upper 80s to near 90 in some spots.
“There’s a look at the afternoon temperatures either near or above 80°,” Forbes said. “In the case of Rome, you’ll be within distance of 90, and we’re going to start to see more numbers like that over the next few days.”
What’s next:
Forbes said the warm pattern is likely to stick around into next week.
“Tomorrow afternoon is another day of highs in the 80s,” he said. “Monday is the day that we’re most likely to get to 90, but we’re still not going to be much lower than that for Tuesday, Wednesday or even Thursday of next week.”
The Source: Information in this article came from the FOX 5 Storm Team.
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