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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

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

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

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Despite progress, HIV remains disproportionately Black in Georgia

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Finding power in history: Haiti’s fight for Black freedom continues to inspire today

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How masculinity, spirituality and race guided James Baldwin’s towering career

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

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

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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

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Claude Mundy: Atlanta’s first Black officer killed in the line of duty
8-year-old Atlanta girl creates products to inspire, motivate Black children
Alonzo Herndon Atlanta’s first Black millionaire
‘A theater of our own’: The Ashby brought movies to a Black audience
History

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For many, an Afro isn’t just a hairstyle
In decades after Civil War, promise of West lured Black homesteaders
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
AJC Bookshelf: 3 must-read books for Black History Month
Black midwives carry on traditions but fight for legitimacy in Georgia
At Tuskegee, U.S. experimented on Black men with syphilis for 40 years
Arts & Music

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Kendrick Lamar: The rapper who won over academia

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

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Costume designer Ruth E. Carter adorns stars for Hollywood

Prince: Why he still reigns, even in death
Trauma

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

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

Black double-consciousness: Du Bois’ century-plus concept still valid
More coverage of Black History Month from the AJC

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Sigma Gamma Rho celebrates a century of ‘Greater Service’

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The long, sad ride of Major Taylor

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‘The Mothers of Gynecology’ remembered in Montgomery monument

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Art Blakey: His university graduated generations of jazz leaders

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Black women, long ignored in infertility discussions, speak out

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BLACK HISTORY MONTH: Black Marine Archeologists

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How ‘The New Negro’ started a renaissance, and not just in Harlem
Black women, and queens, wear more than just a crown

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A King’s wedding
The Black Woman

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

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Ella Baker led civil rights movement from the shadows

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Ma Rainey, ‘Mother of the Blues,’ injected her music with color and controversy
The Black Man

Former astronaut’s career links Tuskegee Airmen to International Space Station

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Vivien Thomas: The Black man who saved ‘blue babies’

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AJC Deja News: Harvard student W.E.B. Du Bois quite an orator (1890)
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