“The recent transformation of the state’s election laws explicitly enabled citizens to file unlimited challenges to other voters’ registrations. Experts warn that election officials’ handling of some of those challenges may clash with federal law.”
Georgia
Journalism Is Struggling. In Atlanta, New Indie outlets Are Finding Ways to Make It Work
“Independent outlets are not only challenging revenue models—they’re changing the way local outlets approach journalism itself.”
In 1848, An Enslaved Couple Fled to Boston in One of History’s Most Daring Escapes
“Risking their lives for liberty and for love, Ellen and William Craft devised a bold plan: They’d don disguises — she as a white man — and embark on the perilous journey north.”
Misdirectives
“A public high school teacher asks why the wrong things cause a fuss in schools.”
In Georgia, Citrus is Just Peachy
“’You’re going to see Georgia citrus become the next Vidalia onion,’ Franklin says. ‘Soon they’ll be in every grocery store around.’”
‘Almost Home’: On Place, Legacy, Growing Up in Atlanta, and Symbols of White Supremacy
An essay on growing up in the South, legacy, and a place rooted in white supremacy.
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers on Helping Elderly Black People to Vote in 1976
“I called out the names, and they’d tell me who they wanted to vote for. Then, very carefully, I put my finger by each name they’d chosen.”
Bonded by Grief, Pain, and Loss
“Do you know what it means to have a wound that never heals?”
‘Shots fired. Male on ground, bleeding out.’
When “Who gets to go jogging without getting shot?” is an actual question a society has to ask, that society is fundamentally flawed.
Lightning, Struck: How an Atlanta Neighborhood Died on the Altar of Super Bowl Dreams
Thirty years ago, the entire community of Lightning, in Atlanta’s west side, was destroyed to build the Georgia Dome. This oral history, told by the residents that were displaced, compiles the stories and memories of a long-gone neighborhood.