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Toure Show

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms—I Love Atlanta

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms—I Love Atlanta Mayor Keisha is an extremely inspiring woman who’s making big changes to criminal justice systems in the city and re-opening the investigation into the infamous Atlanta Child Murders of 1979-1981. Instagram @toureshow. Twitter: @toure Toure Show Episode 87 Host & Writer: Toure Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Associate Producer: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus and Shanta Covington The House: DCP Entertainment For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And the Kisha Lance Bottoms is the mayor of Atlanta and I'm proud she's there.

0:20.9

She's tackling criminal justice reform in part because her childhood was changed

0:25.5

forever when her father was arrested and convicted of drug dealing. She learned

0:30.2

she said that good people make bad decisions and it's important to have

0:34.4

empathy for the incarcerated. She's also addressing something from deep in the

0:39.2

history of Atlanta. She's reopened the investigation into the Atlanta Child Murders, which happened between 1979 and

0:46.0

1981 when at least 28 children were snatched and killed in a bizarre and frightening story that put fear into black homes around the country, including

0:56.1

mine.

0:57.1

Kids were getting snatched out of their beds in the middle of the night and disappearing or

1:00.9

found dead.

1:02.3

And no one was ever convicted of any of those murders.

1:06.0

Wayne Williams was convicted of two other murders of adults

1:10.1

and many thought, okay that means he was the man

1:12.2

because after that they stopped.

1:13.2

But a lot of people think he was the wrong man.

1:16.6

Mayor Kisha wants to dig in and find out.

1:19.4

I wanted to find out who she really is because she seems extremely inspirational and

1:25.0

after talking with her she is. It's Mayor Kisha on Torrey show. What is your superpower? Because you have made it through, you know, coming up in Atlanta, you know, and like to become the mayor so what is it about you that has allowed you

1:48.5

to ascend to this heightened life? Wow that's a great question.

1:53.1

I think what I've come to appreciate is probably a healthy dose of ADHD, and I mean in in all seriousness I have this uncanny ability to do a lot of

2:09.6

things at one time and I think part of it really is, you know, I do have ADHD so I'm wired a certain way.

2:17.4

But also just coming from this family that just did things differently.

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