The Atlanta Objective: A Boycott In Black Mecca

Atlanta's business community might be navigating a boycott, but it has a deeper fundamental problem: Atlanta's not living up to the hype. Here's what The Atlanta Objective will do about it.

A protest crowd had taken over an intersection downtown on a June night last year, blasting Ralo’s “Akh S—t Pop S—t” as the anthem of the day. A hundred people danced in the street, lighting fireworks. Then someone kicked in a window and took off running, and everyone in the crowd started running with him. I did too, one more straphanger trying to get a…