In 1970, Black people made up 21% of the metro Atlanta population. They were concentrated in a swath of land east and west of downtown. White residents comprised 76% of the population. They lived ...

Rockdale County School District is investigating a Honey Creek Elementary School teacher’s unapproved use of racially segregated signs during a Ruby Bridges history lesson, an activity that was not ...

A mother in Atlanta filed a federal discrimination complaint against an elementary school, alleging the school segregated students based on race. "We've lost sleep like trying to figure out why would ...

ATLANTA — An Atlanta Civil Rights pioneer, one of three women who sued the Georgia State College of Business in 1956 to end segregation at the school, is turning 92. Myra Payne Elliott said she ...

ATLANTA - An Atlanta elementary school is under fire after a parent filed a federal discrimination complaint. The mother claims she was told her daughter could only be placed in one of two "Black' ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. A recently published Brookings Institute report found that ...

CityLab’s series on metro Atlanta’s cityhood movement follows how new cities have been forming across that region, mostly from unincorporated areas—land that falls under county governance, but doesn’t ...

This story was re-broadcast on September 26, 2020 as part of The Best Of Only A Game. "My dad used golfing as a life lesson," Michael Holmes says. "That you have to earn your way. That life is hard, ...

The “Atlanta Way”—as city leaders liked to call their pro-business, pro-racial harmony approach—proved good for the city.

ATLANTA — The recent water outage in Atlanta sparked conversations about the city’s aging infrastructure and how long it would take to repair the issue. In west and south Atlanta, water-related ...