Black History Month
In 2024, the Dungeon Family lost its ‘heart.’ The kids are saving it.
The next generation of the Dungeon Family, artists that pioneered Atlanta’s rap scene, is stepping into the void.
Essential history of Neighborhood Arts Center, a space to celebrate Black creativity
The Neighborhood Arts Center opened in May 1975. Actors Samuel L. Jackson, Bill Nunn, author Toni Cade Bambara, visual artist Tina Dunkley were artists-in-residence.
The Poitier family of north Atlanta
A series of racist experiences in the Southeast, made Sidney Poitier avoid Atlanta. Love and a cluster of family, who made the metro Atlanta their, home kept him coming back.
Winfred Rembert documented the Jim Crow era with deeply personal paintings
Today, Rembert’s painting of a lively scene inside a juke joint in his hometown of Cuthbert, “The Dirty Spoon Café,” is on display in the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.
Stop the presses? Savannah’s Black newspaper, the Tribune, prints on
Over its 150 year history, The Savannah Tribune, a Black-owned weekly, has overcome censorship, distribution challenges, an ill-timed closure, a legal challenge, even a fire.
How a stained glass church window in Atlanta changed this Pulitzer Prize winner’s life
The famed W.E.B. Du Bois and Martin Luther King Jr. biographer excavates his own complicated family story.
