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    • This Life with Gracie

    Marni and Jon Ratner with her children, daughter Diana and son Daniel before Jon's death in 2009.
    Life with Gracie
    OPINION: A wife remembers her husband’s life and suicide
    SUMMERTOWN, GA - JULY 14, 2020: Volunteers with the Summertown Food Pantry load bed of a pickup truck with items during the mobile food drive at the Summertown Baptist Church. Members of the pantry will deliver this load to rural poor who can not make it to the food drive. (AJC Photo/Stephen B. Morton)
    Life with Gracie
    OPINION: Want to help the poor? Let’s start with how they’re treated
    Sabrina Johnson, 8, prefers outdoor activities to watching television. Courtesy of Thembi Johnson
    Life with Gracie
    OPINION: Why parents should watch for dueling messages aimed at girls
    More from Gracie Bonds Staples
    Jessica Sacks, co-chair of Project Dignity, shows off thousands of boxes of menstrual products she and volunteers collected. Courtesy of Jessica Sacks
    Life with Gracie
    OPINION: Providing dignity to women suffering period poverty
    This is the entrance to the old Chattahoochee Brick Co., where Black people as young as 14 were made to work free. Courtesy of Jeremy Stewart
    Life with Gracie
    OPINION: Will railroad’s plans supplant dreams for a ‘slave’ memorial?
    Courtney Stewart, founder of LipRevolt, wears the INSURGENT shade from her newly released "Resistance Collection.” Courtesy of LipRevolt
    Life with Gracie
    OPINION: Helping women find their lipstick and their voice
    In this Sunday, Nov. 24, 2019, file photo, actor Chadwick Boseman poses in the press room at the American Music Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Boseman, who played Black icons Jackie Robinson and James Brown before finding fame as the regal Black Panther in the Marvel cinematic universe, has died of cancer. His representative says Boseman died Friday, Aug. 28, 2020, in Los Angeles after a four-year battle with colon cancer. He was 43. Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File
    Life with Gracie
    OPINION: Chadwick Boseman is a reminder colon cancer can strike young...
    People who have lost loved ones to COVID-19 wrote messages on some of the 5,000 broken hearts hung on the fence outside of the National Museum for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta on Thursday evening, Aug. 27, 2020, as part of the “Loved Ones, Not Numbers” campaign to humanize the toll of the current pandemic. Ben Gray for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
    Life with Gracie
    OPINION: Wall of hearts sees COVID-19 deaths as loved ones, not numbers
    Mary Alice Cain is shown at work in her kitchen, where she developed the recipe book using food found at Dollar General. Courtesy of Kate Blohm Photography
    Life with Gracie
    OPINION: This dietitian wrote the book on healthy eating on a dime
    Former Vice President Joe Biden, a Democratic presidential candidate, campaigns at the Rex Theatre in Manchester, N.H., Feb. 8, 2020. He talked recently at length about how he overcame severe stuttering, raising awareness about the speech disorder. ELIZABETH FRANTZ / THE NEW YORK TIMES
    Life
    OPINION: Why Biden’s stuttering is suddenly a big deal and why it be...
    Dr. Kimberly Manning, an internist at Grady Hospital, had a $50,000 birthday wish that garnered far more than she could ask.
    Life with Gracie
    OPINION: Grady doctor’s birthday wish is definitely dope
    Martine Resnick and Eileen Lee, co-founders of The Lola, make a $300,000 investment to promote anti-racism.
    Life with Gracie
    OPINION: Why these Atlanta women want to invest in their Black, brown...
    Dazon Dixon Diallo goes over procedures with Tamika English, operations manager at SisterLove.
    Life with Gracie
    OPINION: Why SisterLove pushes for more women in HIV clinical trials
    Dázon Dixon Diallo is founder of SisterLove Inc., the first women's HIV/AIDS and reproductive justice organization in the southeastern United States.
    Life with Gracie
    OPINION: HIV epidemic won’t end if women are left out of clinical trials
    Jen Cox is a north Fulton resident and real estate agent.
    Life with Gracie
    OPINION: Why Trump’s fair housing tweet just isn’t cool
    Life with Gracie
    OPINION: Why SisterLove pushes for more women in HIV clinical trials
    Life with Gracie
    OPINION: HIV epidemic won’t end if women are left out of clinical trials
    Life with Gracie
    OPINION: Why Trump’s fair housing tweet just isn’t cool
    Life with Gracie
    OPINION: Are dollar stores the problem or the symptom of larger issue?
    Life
    OPINION: Join the Amplify Love campaign. Chef Kevin Gillespie has
    Life
    OPINION: Why this Atlanta couple wants you to help them amplify love
    Jana Seidel, employee of the automotive supplier C.H. Müller GmbH, demonstrates the use of a reusable mask with a copper-containing filter. HENDRIK SCHMIDT / PICTURE-ALLIANCE / DPA / AP IMAGES
    Life
    OPINION: Don’t think wearing a mask keeps us safe from COVID? I ain’t...
    Atlanta police and sanitation crews finish removing protesters and their belongings Monday from outside the Wendy’s where Rayshard Brooks was killed by an officer last month and near where 8-year-old Secoriea Turner was fatally shot while sitting in a car over the July Fourth weekend. JOHN SPINK / JSPINK@AJC.COM
    Life
    OPINION: A weekend when Black lives didn’t seem to matter
    Shaun Kleber is shown outside the Detroit high school where he worked through City Year. CONTRIBUTED
    Life
    Will protests bring change? Why this young Atlantan thinks they will
    In the absence of a vaccine, masks are considered our best defense against COVID-19. CURTIS COMPTON / CCOMPTON@AJC.COM
    Life
    OPINION: There are no ifs, ands or buts: Not wearing a mask is pure...
    C.J. Pearson talks with GAME President Thomas Dortch as Shane Claffey, senior adviser to Last Hope USA, looks on. CONTRIBUTED
    Life
    How this teen got in the GAME to help save black businesses
    There have been protests in Atlanta in the wake of deaths of George Floyd and other African Americans. The sign held by this protester on May 29, 2020, is a reaction to the Minneapolis police officer who had his knee on Floyd’s neck before Floyd died. JENNI GIRTMAN FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
    Life
    Why Tayo Alli may be the best public defender for such a time as this
    Life
    OPINION: Close your eyes. What if Abram Colby were white?
    Life
    OPINION: When police can’t see a man’s humanity, things can’t help but...
    Life
    How this foundation makes sure teens get the mental care they need
    Life
    A hospital turns 70 and a nurse reflects on the changes she witnessed
    Life
    How this 12-year-old Ellenwood student upped his game against COVID-19
    Life
    OPINION: I’m tired and I can’t breathe either
    Life
    A residency match and then, finally, an empty nest
    Life
    OPINION: Why staying home from church fulfills commandment to love thy...
    Life
    A second later and this Alpharetta woman’s life might be different
    Life
    Why ‘High On Heels’ will change your shoe game
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