Black History Month

Learn about black history and the story of the civil rights movement in Atlanta, the birthplace of Martin Luther King Jr. Join The Atlanta Journal-Constitution as we take a look at some of the most prominent individuals, events and stories that have impacted America, over the course of Black History Month.

Black History Month Coverage

Andrew Young on resistance and pushing the world forward

Credit: Afua Richardson

Black comic book artist enjoys magic of her imagination

Credit: Charlie Watts

Nap Ministry redefines resistance by resting

Credit: Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com

Black hairstyles take a stand against white beauty standards

Credit: HYOSUB SHIN / AJC

10 years ago, Wilcox County high schoolers fought segregated proms

Credit: HANDOUT

Satchel Paige’s Brave experiment

Credit: Greenwood

Black banks long important to Atlanta, a bastion of financial strength

Atlanta and Georgia

Credit: Courtesy of TNT

Wrestling with Blackness: African-American artists reach beyond top ropes

A King’s wedding

After Vogue and Beyoncé, what’s next for photographer Tyler Mitchell?

Black Marine Archeologists

Credit: Paramount Television

A conversation with MLK Jr. kept Nichelle Nichols from exiting Star Trek

Georgia’s Critter Fixers: Black vets go from HBCUs to Nat Geo Wild

In Atlanta’s Washington Park, longtime residents work to preserve ‘living history’

Historic Black school in Marietta gets new life with renovation project

Credit: Library of Congress

Whatever became of The Talented Tenth?

Amid the pandemic, Black History Month series explored health and wellness

For many, an Afro isn’t just a hairstyle

In decades after Civil War, promise of West lured Black homesteaders

Credit: NY Public Library Public Colletions

How ‘The New Negro’ started a renaissance, and not just in Harlem

Betty and John: How love broke the color line in Georgia

Harlem Globetrotters faced racial tension, brought basketball thrills

Black double-consciousness: Du Bois’ century-plus concept still valid

Credit: Francis Wolff

Art Blakey: His university graduated generations of jazz leaders

Virgil Abloh: Where luxury fashion and hip-hop intersect

Credit: AP

After Vogue and Beyoncé, what’s next for photographer Tyler Mitchell?

Outkast: Big Boi, Andre 3000 thrived as duo, then apart

More coverage of Black History Month from the AJC

How Maynard Jackson Jr. broke the good-old-boys grip on city funds

Credit: Ben Gray

Black gays practice resistance daily being their authentic selves

Credit: Courtesy Cecil Williams

Cecil Williams’ high-risk drink of water

Credit: steve Schaefer

What does Stone Mountain mean?

Credit: Natrice Miller / Natrice.Miller@ajc.com

Genteel game of bridge a quiet act of rebellion for Black players

Credit: Courtesy Dionne Monique

The secret under Dionne Monique’s scarf

Credit: HYOSUB SHIN / AJC

Black communities burdened by air pollution may finally get answers

Credit: Contributed

Black and Native: embracing the intersection of the two cultures

To My Old Master

Credit: Steve Schaefer

Despite progress, HIV remains disproportionately Black in Georgia

Credit: Steven Zucker, Smarthistory

‘The Mothers of Gynecology’ remembered in Montgomery monument

Credit: Jenni Girtman

Black women, long ignored in infertility discussions, speak out

Tulsa Race Riots: White mobs reduced Black community to rubble in 1921

‘The Weeping Time’: Largest sale of enslaved blacks in U.S. history

Credit: Associated Press

Black double-consciousness: Du Bois’ century-plus concept still valid

The Black Woman

Credit: AP

Ruby Bridges: How a 6-year-old girl stepped into the history books

Credit: Courtesy New York Public Library Archives and Savanna Washington

Vinnette Carroll: Broadway trailblazer in directing Black stories

Credit: Cedric Smith

Chef Mashama Bailey brings ‘a little bit of Black Power’ to the plate

Credit: From The Atlanta Journal-Constitution collection at Georgia State University

Hosea Williams: The Great Defier and Founding Father of a New America

Credit: Atlanta Association of Black Journalists

Lo Jelks, Atlanta’s first Black television reporter

Credit: National Library of France

The long, sad ride of Major Taylor

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