David Mitchell, the Preservation Center’s guy, noted this month marks the 50th anniversary of saving the Fox Theatre. Back in the 1970s, telephone giant Southern Bell wanted to knock down the Fox to ...

Last weekend, for the first time in a while, I felt faith refreshed. In Atlanta, Savannah, Marietta, Athens, Macon, Columbus ...

North Omaha Sunday to go on a special tour centered around the Civil Rights Movement. "I'm really excited to go to Memphis, Atlanta and Tulsa because those are places of Martin Luther King. And ...

With flags, ceremonies, parades and pomp, celebrations across the United States marked the day the promise of freedom finally ...

Plano, Ill., made national news in 2021 when it designated Juneteenth a holiday before the state or federal government. But this year, Plano’s fifth annual celebration is canceled. Organizer Jamal ...

As a freshman Spelmanite in 1960, Georgianne Thomas, then 18, was so committed to the Atlanta Student Movement that not even ...

Kendrick Lamar, Ledisi and others are creating the soundtrack for this cultural inflection point and for the legacy of Juneteenth.

According to those who worked tirelessly to make it a federal holiday, Juneteenth is a day "for reflection and rejoicing" — ...

This Juneteenth we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and ...

1968— The United States Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in the sale and rental of housing. The deci­sion came in a case known as Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. The court used as its precedent ...

A man believed to be a rideshare driver was shot and killed Tuesday night in southwest Atlanta, marking at least the second ...