In what could be called a master class in community organizing, East Point residents showed up to protest a requested variance for a proposed ice manufacturing operation in their neighborhood.

Playlist compiled by Nile Kendall and Christina Lee. Travis Denson and Vincent Richardson helped turn Bankhead into a hip-hop landmark by selling CDs and white tees out of a bread truck. BEFORE ...

Canopy Atlanta asked over 140 Tri-Cities community members about the journalism they needed. Residents raised the area’s walkability and existing public transportation as major issues. One East Point ...

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“We were all going to be forced to close down” because of the customer loss, says Elvia Pelayo, whose family owned Don Juan Mexican Grill and helped organize the event. Pelayo says she and her family ...

ANGY MOSS IS SO ACCUSTOMED to hearing it that it barely registered when Atlanta’s new mayor said it. Like many before him, Andre Dickens invoked the phrase, “from Bankhead to Buckhead,” while ...

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 ...

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 ...

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