Unlike most cities, especially in the south, Atlanta has consistently been run by Black politicians since 1974, and there’s a ...

The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 catalyzed a transformation in Atlanta’s political landscape. Five years ...

City boosters had imagined that Atlanta had outgrown the sordid history of race relations of the American South. The cooperation between the black city government and the white business elite ...

It can be argued that even before the Harlem Renaissance, the concept of Black intellectualism was born right here in Atlanta.