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A Norfolk-Southern train travels south close to the Mitchell Street bridge. The Norfolk-Southern route runs north-south through downtown beneath the Georgia World Congress Center (GWCC), through the Gulch, and then onward to parallel MARTA’s Red/Gold lines south of downtown. Residents in southeast Atlanta have complained of long wait times at railway crossings in their neighborhoods. Jason Getz for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
OPINION: Atlanta residents at an impasse over blocked rail crossings
Bernice King and Martin Luther King III reflect on their mother Coretta Scott King. (Left: Courtesy of the King Center; Right: Alyssa Pointer / AJC file photo)
King family urges holiday celebrants to act on voting laws
Inside the visitor center at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site at 450 Auburn Ave. in 2017. JOHN SPINK /JSPINK@AJC.COM
How to watch the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday service from Atlanta
Martin Luther King Jr. on graduation day at Morehouse College. (Used with permission, Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel, Morehouse College)
Story of a Georgia man killed in 1946 for voting retold by NPR and StoryCorps
Andre Dickens takes the oath of office as he is sworn in as Mayor of Atlanta during his inauguration ceremony at Georgia Tech on Monday, Jan. 3. Dickens has pledged to take on the issue of affordable housing in Atlanta and make real changes during his first 100 days in office. Ben Gray for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
OPINION: Talk of affordable housing is cheap when residents need it now
For the third year in a row, AJC columnist Nedra Rhone has resolved to lose weight. This year, she is changing her intention. (Dreamstime/TNS)
OPINION: Want to keep those resolutions? Be willing to ask for help
New Barbies with vitiligo, no hair, prosthetic limbs
Civil rights icon Ida B. Wells honored by Barbie with doll
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The art gallery entrance foyer has a floating staircase placed between two walls. Text by Jeffrey Bruce Baker/Nancy Tao
Modern Buckhead dream home features art, custom touches throughout
These two steam locomotives are being overhauled at the Pegram Shops in Atlanta in this photo from the 1940s. The photo is par of the railroad archive at the Atlanta History Center. Photo Kenneth Rogers
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Civil rights icon Ida B. Wells honored by Barbie with doll
Through her Zane Venture Fund, Shila Nieves Burney is looking to fund diverse entrepreneurs. PHIL SKINNER FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION.
Venture capital fund aims to invest in diverse group of entrepreneurs
The official portraits of Barack Obama by Kehinde Wiley and Michelle Obama by Amy Sherald, commissioned for the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, are on a national tour that has brought them to the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Obama portraits arrive at High Museum
Inside the visitor center at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site at 450 Auburn Ave. in 2017. JOHN SPINK /JSPINK@AJC.COM
Celebrating Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
The Atlanta Streetcar approaches the Downtown Connector underpass on historic Auburn Avenue. Lawmakers in Georgia hope that the $1 billion to help Black communities cut off by federal highways, which is part of the $1.7 trillion infrastructure bill, will help neighborhoods like Atlanta's Sweet Auburn. (Ben Gray for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Highways divided Black communities; infrastructure money could bridge gaps
Fitness trainer Robert Haddocks shows his client Kimberly Chiodo the proper technique for a chest exercise. Haddock's personal journey toward self-care came when he devoted himself to fitness when a doctor told him he would need surgery to fix a back problem.
Reclaiming self-care’s revolutionary roots for community wellness
The coaching staff for the Wolverines of Morris Brown College are shown in this b/w photo copied from a 1951 football program. L to R, they are: William T. Greene, backfield coach; Edward J. Clemmons, head coach; Clarence O. Brown, line coach; and Thomas L. Caldwell, asst. line coach. (AJC file photo)
Morris Brown has two going into Black College Football Hall of Fame
A librarian at Meadowcreek High School in Gwinnett, Cicely Lewis is the 2020 National School Librarian of the Year. She says efforts by lawmakers to limit books in school libraries help their reelection campaigns, not students. (Courtesy photo)
Georgia librarian: Banning books helps politicians but hurts students
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Maternal deaths caused by chronic hypertension continue to rise
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Crowds gather outside the famed Royal Peacock Club on Auburn Avenue in this photo from the 1960s. Originally named The Top Hat Club, the nightspot opened in 1938 and featured some of the top acts in show business, including Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong, James Brown, Muddy Waters, Otis Redding, B.B. King, the Four Tops, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Wilson Pickett, The Supremes, Jackie Wilson, Little Richard, Aretha Franklin, Ike and Tina Turner and Gladys Knight and the Pips. The club, at 186 Auburn Avenue, reopened in 2010 and remains open today. Photo courtesy of Skip Mason Archives. »» SEE MORE FLASHBACK FOTOS FROM THE AJC ARCHIVES.
Once the ‘richest Negro street,’ Sweet Auburn tries to hold on
This 97-year-old building was the home of the Prince Hall Masons of Chickamauga. The lodge closed in 2018 because of dwindling membership, but an effort is underway to restore it. Contributed by by Mark Gilliland
Efforts to save historic Black Masonic lodge in North Georgia underway
Employees at Mic, a company developed by and for millennials, high five in the company’s newsroom in this pre-pandemic photo. But the past two years has dramatically altered the traditional workplace and generational diversity is the key to a successful future, said Atlanta-area experts. (Jennifer S. Altman/The New York Times)
OPINION: The future of work is changing. Which generation is ready?
Faced with the task of teaching her son to drive, Larhonda Welch Little was also forced to confront the emotions they both felt about race, identity and policing.
Real Life Relationships: The joy and heartbreak of teaching my Black teenage son to drive
In an everlasting holiday debate, which is the greatest Christmas song? "This Christmas," by Donny Hathaway? Or "Silent Night," by The Temptations.
‘This Christmas’ or ‘Silent Night’?
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