Nedra Rhone
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Nedra Rhone is a lifestyle columnist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution where she has been a reporter since 2006. A graduate of Columbia University School of Journalism, she enjoys writing about the people, places and events that define metro Atlanta. She has written about style, entertainment, personal finance and the environment for the AJC. Previously, Rhone was a staff writer at Newsday where her first assignment was covering the devastating impact of 9/11 on the families and communities of Long Island. She later covered K-12 education for Long Island's 125 school districts and is a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her reporting on women in hip-hop. Sign up to have her column sent to your inbox: ajc.com/newsletters/nedra-rhone-columnist.
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Zachary Perry, parliamentarian for NPU-V counts votes to recommend against a City of Atlanta change that would allow a data center to be built in Adair Park on Monday, April 13, 2026. (Ben Gray for the AJC)

City Council must uphold commitment to data center ban in Atlanta

The actresses Jia Song, left, and Yuh-Jung Youn, center, and the pop star RosŽ celebrate the Korean beauty brand Sulwhasoo at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on March 29, 2023.  (Ye Fan/The New York Times)

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first Black Flight attendants for Delta: Patricia Grace Murphy and Phenola Culbreath, both hired in 1966

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AAJC 070424 Praise House

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Basketball player Walt Frazier takes a nostalgic tour of the Sweet Auburn district and the surrounding neighborhoods where he grew up, Dec. 18, 1983. 
(The Atlanta Journal Constitution)

Walt Frazier, former New York Knick basketball star and toast of Manhattan for his flashy style on and off the court, makes a nostalgic tour of some of his old haunts in Atlanta. Atlanta Weekly. Sunday December 18, 1983.

AJCP029-006b, Atlanta Journal Constitution Photographic Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.

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