Atlanta Missing and Murdered Children

Mayor Bottoms Resigns, Thoughts on Her Legacy

Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced last week that she would not run for reelection. As the Bottoms era comes to a close, we now grapple with its meaning. I think her legacy will be shaped in part by her willingness to grapple with and commemorate a part of our city’s past that so many of us still struggle with—the history of the Atlanta child murders.

Mayor Bottoms Resigns, Thoughts on Her Legacy