Black Atlantans experienced redlining and were prevented from buying homes in most Atlanta neighborhoods during the 1940s and ...

This is a weekly feature called Community Notebook, filled with snippets of information, conversations, and reporting about the communities where we work. Canopy Atlanta Fellows and other community ...

By Audrey Hamm, Intern Thursday, June 19, 2025 Refuge Coffee, Clarkston, GA About 25 members of the Clarkston community gathered at Refuge Coffee for good food, shopping from Amani’s Women Center, and ...

After more than eights weeks of community conversations and listening in Clarkston, Canopy Atlanta hosted the Clarkston Community Social to honor the diversity of life experiences, cultures, and ...

It became a buzzword in 2020, but “mutual aid” isn’t charity—it’s about creating a culture of collectivity. Here’s how some Atlanta organizations are putting that philosophy into action. On a recent ...

At the same time, Southern hip-hop was achieving massive mainstream success. In 1998, No Limit Records — whose roster included Silkk the Shocker, C-Murder, Mia X and Mystikal — was on its way to ...

IN 1967, PRESIDENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON established his Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice to study community distrust of police. This was done partly in response to the race ...

Canopy Atlanta asked the Bankhead and Grove Park community members about the journalism they wanted to see about their communities, and this story emerged from that feedback. Canopy Atlanta also ...

This story was produced in partnership with WABE. DorMiya Vance, one of the reporters on this story, is a Report for America Fellow covering metro Atlanta’s southside communities, including South ...

Joan S. has lived in the area for 25 years. Through her work and experience living in East Point and Hapeville, she thinks that the Tri-Cities could “be much more vibrant communities than they are,” ...

IN JULY 2019, CITY OFFICIALS, developers, West End landlords, and neighborhood leaders crowded into a Shrine of the Black Madonna meeting room to learn about a more than $400 million plan to redevelop ...