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(Left to Right) Ryan Glover, Ryan Wilson, TK Petersen and Paul Judge recently announced the acquisition of The Gathering Spot by digital banking platform Greenwood.

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Atlanta deal: Digital bank Greenwood buys Black network Gathering Spot
Porchse Miller, a community organizer with Atlanta NAACP, raises a fist during an abortion rights rally and march in Atlanta on Saturday, May 7, 2022. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

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The fight over abortion rights is a Black issue
TENNESSEE, UNITED STATES - APRIL 04: Civil rights leader Andrew Young (L) and others standing on balcony of Lorraine motel pointing in direction of assailant after assassination of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who is lying at their feet. (Photo by Joseph Louw/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)

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A pillow fight and a bullet
Tisha Thompson works on plans for LYS Beauty, the cosmetics line she launched in 2019. It became the first Black-owned cosmetics brand to receive Sephora's Clean at Sephora seal. (Courtesy of LYS Beauty)

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OPINION: Beauty that’s more than skin deep
050422 Atlanta: Tyquan O'Neal with the Pittman Panthers Black goes to the basket against team 24/7 during Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens’ Midnight Basketball League that serves as an anti-crime initiative at the C.T. Martin Recreation Center on Wednesday, May 4, 2022, in Atlanta. “Curtis Compton / Curtis.Compton@ajc.com”

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Mayor Dickens hopes to help curb Atlanta crime with Midnight Basketball
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Pinky Cole’s new Slutty Vegan to open in Athens Sunday
Founded in 2020, BLAC wants to create more opportunities for Black and African American creatives to get into the advertising industry through a hands-on internship program at some of the country’s top independent ad agencies, including in Atlanta. (BLAC)

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Ad agency internship program aims to ‘open doors’ for Atlanta’s Black creatives
Mary J Blige brought her Strength of a Woman Tour to packed State Farm Arena on Saturday, May 7, 2022. The concert also featured Chaka Khan, Xscape, City Girls, Queen Naija, Dionne Farris, Baby Tate and Omeretta the Great. (Photo: Robb Cohen for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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Review: Mary J. Blige’s first festival full of surprises
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First African American founded museum in Savannah, the Kiah House Museum, unveils...
YouTube has removed a video of a political forum by Republican candidates for governor of Pennsylvania. (Dreamstime/TNS)

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YouTube star Kevin Samuels has died in Atlanta
Chef Sonya Jones’ 25-year-old Sweet Auburn Bread Company is in the historic Sweet Auburn district. For a new course at Savannah College of Art and Design, students from various disciplines worked to design a new storefront, logo and interior for the bakery. The designs will be implemented through a grant from Bank of America and Sweet Auburn Works. Photo courtesy of Savannah College of Art and Design

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OPINION: Service-learning has positive impact on small business
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Atlanta rapper Future’s new album drops Friday
Thomas Cole, keystone Atlanta educator, dies at 81
Future claims he's bigger than Jay-Z 'in the streets'
A rose-colored celebration of wine, fashion and music in Atlanta
The March On For Voting Rights march reaches the John Lewis mural on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta on Saturday, August 28, 2021. STEVE SCHAEFER FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION

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Voices of King podcast continues with Congressman John Lewis
Study finds link between vitamin D and breast cancer risk
OPINION: For some Atlanta residents, the new American dream isn’t always in America
Black hair interactive selfie museum is open in Atlanta
Tyler Miller, left, a junior at Dougherty Comprehensive High School, and U.S. Rep. Sanford Bishop, D-Albany, stand in front of Tyler’s winning entry for the Second Congressional District of Georgia in the 40th Congressional Art Competition. (Courtesy of the Albany Museum of Art/Jim Hendricks)

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Dougherty High student wins Congressional Art competition
Enjoy rosé all day at this Atlanta wine and music festival
Opinion: DeKalb response to Druid Hills High doesn’t inspire confidence
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January 27, 2021 Elberton - Aerial photography shows Elberton Square in downtown Elberton on Wednesday, January 27, 2021. Georgia has not opened COVID-19 vaccination to teachers yet, but a small school district east of Athens still managed to offer shots to any employee who wanted them. Elbert County Superintendent Jon Jarvis told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he sees his teachers, bus drivers and other employees as ÒessentialÓ personnel who should be prioritized for vaccination. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

Athens among Zemplee’s top 10 places to age in place
Outdoor spaces have the potential to affect change by promoting biodiversity, habitat creation, carbon sequestration, neighborhood beautification and community development.

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Tyler Mitchell attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute September 2021 benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "In America: A Lexicon of Fashion" exhibition in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

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After Vogue and Beyoncé, what’s next for photographer Tyler Mitchell?
Peter Byrd, 66, of Douglasville, learned he was HIV positive 33 years ago. In the early days of his fight, he gained and lost weight and has been near death. STEVE SCHAEFER FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION

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Despite progress, HIV remains disproportionately Black in Georgia
We take a look back at the historical significance of the Haitian revolution, the largest and most successful slave rebellion in the Western Hemisphere. Members of Atlanta's Haitian diaspora share how they remember learning about their country's history, and what it means to them.

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Finding power in history: Haiti’s fight for Black freedom continues to inspire today
American novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist and civil rights activist James Baldwin poses at his home in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, southern France, on November 6, 1979. (Ralph Gatti/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

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How masculinity, spirituality and race guided James Baldwin’s towering career
Nyla Rose delivers a devastating Camel Clutch (a rear chinlock while seated on an opponent's back) to Ryo Mizunami on an All Elite Wrestling program. Rose was AEW's second woman's champ and is the first openly transgender wrestler. (Courtesy of TNT)

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Wrestling with Blackness: African-American artists reach beyond top ropes
Hosea Williams leads an Atlanta sanitation workers strike, on April 13, 1970. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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Hosea Williams: The Great Defier and Founding Father of a New America
Dr. Natasha Travis and Eva King, members of the Atlanta chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., confer with each other at the sorority's Covid-19 vaccination drive-thru at West Mitchell CME Church in Vine City on Feb. 19, 2022. Dr. Travis is the chair of the chapter's Covid-19 response committee. The sorority is celebrating 100 years in 2022.

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Sigma Gamma Rho celebrates a century of ‘Greater Service’
Major Taylor was a cyclist who began his professional career in 1896 at the age 18. By the time this photo was taken in 1907 at the Vélodrome Buffalo race track in Paris, Taylor already had a distinguished career and was staging a comeback. (National Library of France)

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The long, sad ride of Major Taylor
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Rev. Billy Kyles: 'The nomination is an honor for so many people.'

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A long-awaited honor for Atlanta civil rights activist
Members of Bridging the Gap, a mulitracial, multiethnic men's fellowship group based in North Fulton, pose with Bob Dickinson (seated) during a book signing. Dickinson joined the group after reading about their efforts at racial reconciliation in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Courtesy of Mark Meadows

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OPINION: Jesus and beer are not such strange bedfellows
Vanessa “VJ” Roberts (M’Lynn),Courtney Locke (Annelle), Aleigha Burt (Shelby), and Chelcy Cutwright (Truvy), rehearse Wednesday for the Springer Opera House production of “Steel Magnolias.” (Courtesy of Mike Haskey)

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Dr. Thomas W. Cole, Jr., a noted chemist and educator, including teaching at and leading Clark Atlanta University as president, died this month. (KENT D. JOHNSON/staff)

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Thomas Cole, keystone Atlanta educator, dies at 81
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