AJC Celebrating Nurses honoree Emily Rakestraw
Emily Rakestraw is a nurse educator working with acute care nurses at Wellstar Paulding Medical Center in Hiram. She's known for proactively offering help, whether it’s covering classes, assisting with new-hire onboarding or stepping in for colleagues.
Same Civil War, different story: How textbooks rewrote slavery and Lincoln
Credits: AJC|PBS|ANF|WPLG|11Alive|Getty|STL Post Disp.|Daviess Co. Pub. Libr.|TN State Libr. and Arch.|HathiTrust|Libr. of Cong.|NY Pub. Libr.|The TX Trib.|NBCN
Bodycam footage shows Georgia police traffic stop leading to ICE arrests
Body camera footage shows Georgia police pulling over a work van and contacting ICE. Credits: AJC|Jefferson PD|Mario Guevara, Luis Estrada Telemundo Atlanta/FB
Why people still reenact the Civil War 160 years later
Civil War reenactors say they’re preserving history, but their work is central to debates about Southern identity. Credit: AJC | Getty | New York Public Library
Ossoff invokes Founding Fathers in warning about Trump
Sen. Jon Ossoff invoked the Founding Fathers while contrasting their vision for the country with current political divisions. Credits: Jon Ossoff/YouTube