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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sunday, April 11, 2021 Contact: Marvin J. Nunnally (706) 338-9301 or [email protected] ... It is with much regret that I, Marvin J. Nunnally, will not be a candidate for the Watkinsville City Council Post #1 vacancy due to potential work policy conflicts at Athens Technical College. I will remain active and encourage others to engage in community volunteer committees on the city and county levels. I am quite excited about two major projects with the Unity in the Community Committee's COVID-19 Vaccination on Saturday, April 17th at the Oconee Civic Center from 9am - 1pm and the Food Distribution on Saturday, April 24th from 8:30 am - 10:30 am on Dowdy Road behind Epps Bridge Market Place. I am proud to be one of the organizers with volunteers from the Oconee County government, City of Watkinsville, Athens Masonic District No. 6, St. Mary's Hospital, University Cancer and Blood Center, Oconee Sheriff's Department, In Touch Management Group Youth Academy, local boy scout troops, Oconee Rotary, Oconee County Chamber of Commerce, Bethel Baptist Church, Brown Chapel Church, Watkinsville United Methodist Church, the Western Judicial Circuit DA, University of Georgia School of Pharmacy, and others pitching in to make a difference at one or both of the upcoming events.

For immediate Press Release: Nunnally announces bid for Watkinsville City Council Post #1 Monday, April 5, 2021 Contact: Marvin J. Nunnally @ (706) 338-9301 ... After much prayer and conversations with family and friends, I have decided that I will offer my candidacy for Watkinsville City Council Post #1, said Watkinsville native Marvin J. Nunnally. I am excited about this opportunity and feel that I have much to offer my hometown community. Now is an opportunity to engage in the future growth of the greatest small town in America, Watkinsville. Our growth should be guided by those who have a vested interest. My family has been here since the narrow dirt roads and streets covered Oconee County, while traveling to church by horse and buggy. Nunnally points out his reason for running now. Like every community we have to be concerned with economic development, education, public safety, integrity, and building a strong infrastructure. There are numerous commercial projects and developments that will aide our tax base, but a stronger partnership with the leadership of Oconee County, Northeast Georgia Regional Commission, and the State of Georgia can make Watkinsville more attractive. We will continue to support one of the best school systems in the state and assist its leadership when necessary. We must continue to find those diamonds in the rough whose talent and skills will propel the community to be all that it can be. Nunnally is the Economic Development Coordinator for Athens Technical College. He spent several years in the tourism business with The Classic Center. He has guided the strategic marketing firm of In Touch Management Group for over 30 years. He is a member of the Bethel Baptist Church, past president of the Athens Area Human Relations Council, past president of the Athens Alumni Chapter of the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, past president of Historic Athens, charter member of the Athens Alumni National Pan-Hellenic Council, and past president of the Athens Nurses Clinic Board of Directors. He is quite active in the Masonic Order as Prince Hall District Deputy Grand Master for the Athens District No. 6, a member of the Al-Karim No. 242 Shriners, past High Priest of the James G. Ray Holy Royal Arch, and state convention director for Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Georgia. He is a graduate of Oconee County High School, the University of Georgia and the John Marshall Law School in Atlanta.

Black History Moment #22 Nancy Sue Wilson (February 20, 1937 December 13, 2018) was an American singer and actress whose career spanned over five decades, fr...om the mid-1950s until her retirement in the early 2010s. She was especially notable for her single "(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am" and her version of the standard "Guess Who I Saw Today". Wilson recorded more than 70 albums and won three Grammy Awards for her work. During her performing career, Wilson was labeled a singer of blues, jazz, R&B, pop, and soul; a "consummate actress"; and "the complete entertainer". The title she preferred, however, was "song stylist".She received many nicknames including "Sweet Nancy", "The Baby", "Fancy Miss Nancy" and "The Girl With the Honey-Coated Voice". In March 2008, she was hospitalized for lung complications, recovered, and reported to be doing well. In the same year, her husband, Wiley Burton, died after suffering from renal cancer. On December 13, 2018, Wilson died at her home in Pioneertown, California. She was 81 years old.

Today we celebrate Miss Ida B. Wells on her birthday. Ida B. Wells, a Holly Springs native, was a journalist who covered the lynchings of Black Americans in the Deep South. She was a co-founder of the NAACP and a Pulitzer Prize winner. Ida B. Wells is a true Mississippi hero.

Watch this ACLU attorney tear down the 'heritage, not hate' Confederate monument myths (warning: distressing themes)

Congratulations are in place for Dr. Luther McDaniel, Principal of Gaines Elementary, who has recently been featured in Berry Magazine. Follow the link to read ...the entire magazine, Dr. McDaniel is featured on pages 22-24 https://issuu.com/berrycollege/docs/berrymagazine_summer2020 #BetterTogether

Something else we'd like to share today. This is a guest column by Marvin J. Nunnally, who is President of In Touch Management Group and was a recipient of the ...University of Georgia’s President’s Fulfilling the Dream Award, which is given to community leaders who make Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of equality and justice a reality: As MLK said, ‘Hate cannot drive out hate While many want to bury their heads in the sand when it comes to race relations in our country, a course of recent unarmed black killings have brought the topic back to the surface. It saddens many that certain Americans are constantly talking about the Bill of Rights’ guarantee of the indelible rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness or lack thereof. Our prayers and hearts are with the families of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd. The nation has seen the Feb. 23 video (shot by one of the accused) of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery being pursued by armed white residents of a Brunswick neighborhood while Arbery was jogging. Sadly, it took 74 days to arrest Gregory McMichael and his son Travis McMichael charging them with murder and aggravated assault in the killing of Abery. It took the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Attorney General Chris Carr and a new prosecutor from Cobb County to finally start the wheels of justice for the Arbery family. This case reeks of corruption and cover up in the Brunswick town. On March 13, Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old black woman of Louisville, Kentucky, was shot dead by police who stormed her home as she slept while searching for a suspect who was already in custody. The emergency medical worker was shot at least eight times by officers, according to the autopsy. Defense attorney Ben Crump, representing Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, says Walker fired in self-defense because the police did not announce themselves and that he believed they were breaking into the home. Protest continues in Louisville during the investigation. Finally, the senseless May 25 death of Minneapolis’ George Floyd at the hands of Officer Derek Chauvin, while three other policemen stood by, has proven to be the boiling point for many protesters coast to coast. Floyd was handcuffed and on the ground while Chauvin appeared to grind his knee into the main neck artery of Floyd, cutting off air circulation for nearly nine minutes. This was being videotaped by onlookers and someone who continuously asked the officer to ease up off the man’s neck and let him breathe. The victim told the officer I can’t breathe. Chauvin even applied pressure for an additional three minutes after Mr. Floyd was bleeding out of his nose and was unconscious. Chauvin has been charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter, while three other officers involved in the incident were also fired. As a result of society’s history of acquittals and cover-ups of unarmed black killings, we have seen a number of protests across the nation. Some have been peaceful and well-intended, while others have shown chaos and destruction of property and businesses. Rightfully, governors have called in the National Guard to back up local police and issued curfews. As a black man, I encourage everyone to exercise your anger and frustration at the voting booth on June 9 and in November, while registering with Census 2020. I advocate a stronger relationship with God, who will hear your cry. Let’s become just as outraged as when armed militia storm a State Capitol demanding the state to reopen in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

You want to know why Black people are angry We can’t be handcuffed and put in the police car unless we are dead (#GeorgeFloyd) We can’t go bird watching in Cent...ral Park (#ChristianCooper) We can’t go jogging (#AmaudArbery). We can’t relax in the comfort of our own homes (#BothemSean and #AtatianaJefferson). We can't ask for help after being in a car crash (#JonathanFerrell and #RenishaMcBride). We can't have a cellphone (#StephonClark). We can't leave a party to get to safety (#JordanEdwards). We can't play loud music (#JordanDavis). We can’t sell CD's (#AltonSterling). We can’t sleep (#AiyanaJones) We can’t walk from the corner store (#MikeBrown). We can’t play cops and robbers (#TamirRice). We can’t go to church (#Charleston9). We can’t walk home with Skittles (#TrayvonMartin). We can’t hold a hair brush while leaving our own bachelor party (#SeanBell). We can’t party on New Years (#OscarGrant). We can’t get a normal traffic ticket (#SandraBland). We can’t lawfully carry a weapon (#PhilandoCastile). We can't break down on a public road with car problems (#CoreyJones). We can’t shop at Walmart (#JohnCrawford) . We can’t have a disabled vehicle (#TerrenceCrutcher). We can’t read a book in our own car (#KeithScott). We can’t be a 10yr old walking with our grandfather (#CliffordGlover). We can’t decorate for a party (#ClaudeReese). We can’t ask a cop a question (#RandyEvans). We can’t cash our check in peace (#YvonneSmallwood). We can’t take out our wallet (#AmadouDiallo). We can’t run (#WalterScott). We can’t breathe (#EricGarner). We can’t live (#FreddieGray). We’re tired. Tired of making hashtags. Tired of trying to convince you that our #BlackLivesMatter too. Tired of dying. Tired. Tired. Tired. So very tired. (Author Unknown. Copy and paste)

The AJC reviewed the video from seven officers during the incident to gain a clearer picture of the confrontation, and to better understand why Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms took the extraordinary step of ordering their terminations just 24 hours after the incident.

Words from our Columnist, Chuck Hobbs "George Floyd, 46, was lynched this week There is no other way to describe what we watched on that video, and the police ...officers who lynched himand those who stood idly byare murderers and accomplices to first degree murder. Yes, first degree murder, because the officer who I will not give the respect of naming had over eight minutes to reflect and yet he coldly kept his knee on Floyd’s neckand ignored his plaintive crieslike a savage animal thirsty for the kill." https://thehobbservationpoint.com//george-floyd-was-lynch/ See more

This is how to going to school is going to be from now on