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Gracie Bonds Staples
Lifestyle reporter
Gracie Bonds Staples is a lifestyle writer for AJC. She joined the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in July 2000, after stints at the Fort Worth-Star Telegram, Sacarement Bee, Raleigh Times and two Mississippi dailies . Gracie graduated in 1979 from the University of Southern Mississippi. She and her husband Jimmy Staples have two daughters, Jamila and Asha.
Latest from Gracie Bonds Staples
After four suicides, a school and community begins the healing process
The wooden hearts once planted on the lawn of Milton High are gone now, replaced by a memorial at the school’s entrance, a somber reminder that life doesn’t stretch on forever. Sometimes life stops at age 16. Seven months ago that might have seemed like an impossibility at Milton High ...
Lowery prepared to mark a birthday as others celebrate his legacy
Two Sundays from now, the Rev. Joseph Lowery will gather with admirers and well-wishers to celebrate his 92nd birthday. To some, his age renders him just an old man, but nary a day passes when Lowery isn’t busy preaching and prodding America toward her best self. Still, he admits time ...
McMillan returns with ‘Who Asked You?’
She has had an enjoyable string of best-sellers. Remember “Getting to Happy,” “Waiting to Exhale” and “How Stella Got Her Groove Back”? Remember “Mama”?Well, you won’t likely forget Terry McMillan’s “Who Asked You?” either.In its 383 pages, McMillan introduces us to Betty Jean Butler, the rock of an African-American family ...
Company throws 40-ton weight behind breast cancer awareness
The pink construction crane had been in service for nearly two weeks when Jessica Ives learned her mother had breast cancer. Suddenly, the campaign by her employer, Phoenix Crane Rental, to help raise awareness of breast cancer, and Ives’ job of operating the pink crane, seemed much more personal. “I ...
Back in the game after a non-traumatic brain injury
For most of her life, sports loomed large in Andee Poulos’ life. She was an avid softball player and swimmer. But just four days into 2011 Poulos was suddenly sidelined. An arteriovenous malformation, an abnormal connection she was born with between arteries and veins in her brain, ruptured and at ...
Overdue validation in a crown and honorary degrees
In just the past few weeks, there have been dozens of stories in the news centered around African American history.The 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington. The role the Freedom Singers of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee played in the movement. And Georgia Rep. John Lewis’ debut as a ...
A bus, two trains and an airplane to a future
His clothes were still wet and he was chilled to the bone, but it didn’t matter. Tayvon Snowden had come to celebrate, and no rainstorm was about to dampen his spirits. “Wait till I tell you what happened, but I’m good,” he told his parents as they arrived at the ...
Heroine of the hour credits faith
The day before that fateful encounter, Antoinette Marie Tuff was deep into a Bible study series about making God the immovable anchor in her life. In times of storms, in the midst of hardship and pain, she was being asked to seek her God for the stability, guidance and security ...
Tintype photography making a comeback
As he sat in yet another airport waiting to board a plane, Josiah Morgan powered up his laptop to see what the universe held about lenses. One click led to another and another until finally he happened upon a history of optics and wet plate collodion, a photographic process once ...
Alzheimer’s patients need specialized help
Any day now, Joni Poulos will help her father move into his new place at Autumn Leaves, easing a burden she has carried since she discovered he suffered from dementia. “The minute they say we can move in, we’re gone,” she said. Poulos is one of a growing number of ...
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