Gavin Godfrey
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Gavin Godfrey is an editor and Team Lead for UATL, the AJC's Black culture franchise. He's an award-winning writer and editor from Atlanta who's covered everything from OutKast to the water boys. Before joining the AJC, Gavin was the editor for Capital B Atlanta. He also held editorial leadership roles with Creative Loafing, Canopy Atlanta, and CNN. His freelance work has appeared in NPR, Complex, The Fader, and Vice.
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Why Outkast Is the Best Rap-Group of All-Time

Ain’t no debate: Outkast is the greatest rap group of all time

Influence

‘Everybody loves Outkast’: How Andre and Big Boi influenced your favorite artists

How Trap Golf is brings Black players to the greens

How Trap Golf brings Black players to the greens

Story on hysterectomies

‘It’s UATL’ podcast: The surgery Black women don’t talk about enough

Exhibition game between Atlanta Dream and Indiana Fever

Are the Dream Atlanta’s best sports franchise? They could be.

Black Mecca Reader Responses

Is Atlanta America’s Black mecca? Natives and transplants have thoughts.

Atlanta Winter Beerfest at the Masquerade

‘Cornerstone of Atlanta hip-hop’ D.R.E.S. Tha Beatnik passes away

Black Mecca Mental Health

Is the Black mecca ‘10 years behind the rest of the world’ on mental health?

Travis Barber of 1 Mo ?; Jannora Gamble, school social worker; rapper Big Boi; and Lamont Johnson, of 1 Mo ?, laugh during a bike giveaway at Kipp Ways Academy middle school in Atlanta on Monday, December 9, 2024. For the second year in a row Bear Strong partnered with Specialized bikes and Senoia bike shop to award middle school children who have been recognized by their school as most improved, and great attendance.  (Arvin Temkar / AJC)

Why Big Boi was giving away free $750 bikes

Rico Wade Monument

‘It started all right here’: Rico Wade immortalized with East Point monument