Mirtha Donastorg

Mirtha Donastorg is a reporter on The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s business team focusing on Black wealth, entrepreneurship, and minority-owned businesses as well as innovation at Atlanta’s HBCUs. Most recently she was the HBCU Innovation Editor at The Plug, exploring research, business and tech innovations coming from Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

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AJC poll: Georgians concerned about inflation, economy as midterms loom

Republican and Democratic voters in Georgia agree on at least one thing: inflation is the most important issue facing the state.

Wells Fargo gives nearly $3 million to Atlanta organizations for housing, small business

The Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta and Invest Atlanta have both gotten grants from Wells Fargo and its foundation to support initiatives across the city.

He built an empire that helped build Atlanta. A new marker honors him.

H.J. Russell & Co. built many of Atlanta’s most iconic structures, from Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport to Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

From left, Oprah Winfrey, Rihanna, Tyler Perry and Michael Jordan are four of the world’s 27 Black billionaires, according to Forbes. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times; Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP; Nina Westervelt/The New York Times; Thibault Camus/AP)

Forbes: These are the world’s 27 Black billionaires

Of the nearly 3,500 billionaires in the world, only 27 are Black – fewer than 1%. Just four are women. Here’s who made the list and where Tyler Perry ranks.

New Black Wall Street Market failed. But there’s hope its mission won’t.

Supporters say the market's closure is a bittersweet fate for an idea that aimed to deliver development dreams that have long eluded this corner of south DeKalb County.

The first pre-fabbed section of Concourse D to be transported to the airport

Judge shields Atlanta from Trump executive orders in federal funding case

A federal judge is temporarily prohibiting a handful of federal agencies from enforcing immigration enforcement and antidiversity conditions on federal grants.

Current and former Atlanta Mayors gather at Big Bethel AME Church to push to protect DEI initiatives in the City of Atlanta, Georgia.

Atlanta quietly joins fight against the Trump administration’s anti-DEI push

The Fresno v. Turner lawsuit is one of several filed by groups of municipalities and authorities against the Trump administration over the last year.

Customers walk among the storefronts at the New Black Wall Street Market on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022, in Lithonia, Georgia. The market has been in operation for over a year and gives Black business owners the opportunity to sell their products. (Christina Matacotta for the AJC)

New Black Wall Street Market opened to fanfare. It’s soon closing.

The market's founder turned a vacant Target store into a thriving marketplace where more than 100 Black entrepreneurs could sell their wares.

This metro Atlanta medical company agrees to be sold in $1.3 billion deal

Avanos Medical, a publicly traded company based in Alpharetta, is being taken private as a result of the deal.

This entrepreneur is helping create a brain trust for Atlanta women founders

Sherry Deutschmann went from being a maid to building a $40 million business. Now, she’s taking her hard-learned lessons to help other female entrepreneurs.