“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.”
Georgia
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Misdirectives
“A public high school teacher asks why the wrong things cause a fuss in schools.”
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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.’”
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‘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.
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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.”
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Bonded by Grief, Pain, and Loss
“Do you know what it means to have a wound that never heals?”
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‘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.
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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.
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Reckoning With Georgia’s Increasing Suppression of Asian American Voters
As AAPI’s become a more powerful, Democrat-leaning voting bloc, efforts to keep them from the polls intensify.
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Stacey Abrams’ Historic Win in Georgia: A Reading List
Stacey Abrams’ win in Georgia could put one of the U.S.’s most populous red states in play for progressives for the first time in decades.