On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a Black man living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was killed by a white police officer, triggering what may have been the largest mass movement in U.S. history with between 15 and 26 million Americans participating, forcing a reexamination of the...
Josh Humphries and Kendra Taylor of the Office of Housing and Community Development explore how to understand neighborhood change in Atlanta relative to public investment, design goals and demographics....
In this excerpt from her recent UGA press monograph Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta's Public Housing, Akira Drake Rodriguez examines the role of Black women in tenant association activism and their pursuit for social and spatial justice....
Clif Stratton examines how race shaped Atlanta’s historical efforts to memorialize the accomplishments of the home run king, Henry Aaron....
Max Blau and Todd Michney recount the 1960 bombing of a Black elementary school on English Avenue and explores how it refutes challenge the myth of Atlanta as an oasis from racist violence...
In this excerpt from his University of Georgia Press monograph, Randall L. Patton explores the experiences of African American workers at Lockheed-Georgia in the 1950s and how their frustrations eventually resulted in the creation of a new federal policy for workplace integration in the 1960s....
Videos of a roundtable discussion about the diverse Afro-diasporic geographies of the Atlanta metropolitan region, moderated by Kali-Ahset Amen and including commentary from Asia Leeds, Mark Bilal King, Regine O. Jackson, Justin Hosbey, and Aretina Hamilton....
Irene Holliman Way examines the role John Portman played in the re-development of downtown Atlanta during the 1960s and 1970s and the disparate impacts of his "private urban renewal" efforts....
In this excerpt from his recent UGA press monograph The Grapevine of the Black South, Thomas Aiello recounts the origins of the Atlanta Daily World and the Scott Newspaper Syndicate. ...
Scott Markley examines suburban redevelopment projects in Atlanta and their role in changing neighborhood racial composition. ...