Black History Month

Lena Baker was executed in 1945 for killing a white man whom she testified had regularly beaten and raped her. In 2005, Georgia granted Baker a formal pardon.

The next generation of the Dungeon Family, artists that pioneered Atlanta’s rap scene, is stepping into the void.

The Neighborhood Arts Center opened in May 1975. Actors Samuel L. Jackson, Bill Nunn, author Toni Cade Bambara, visual artist Tina Dunkley were artists-in-residence.

A series of racist experiences in the Southeast, made Sidney Poitier avoid Atlanta. Love and a cluster of family, who made the metro Atlanta their, home kept him coming back.

The reverends were looking for a messiah....

A decade into The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Black History Month series, we have produced more than 300 pieces of original content to help tell the story of a culture. Tha...

Malcolm X had been a public critic of King and rejected the Nobel Peace Prize winner’s direction on race relations.

Today, Rembert’s painting of a lively scene inside a juke joint in his hometown of Cuthbert, “The Dirty Spoon Café,” is on display in the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.

Over its 150 year history, The Savannah Tribune, a Black-owned weekly, has overcome censorship, distribution challenges, an ill-timed closure, a legal challenge, even a fire.

The famed W.E.B. Du Bois and Martin Luther King Jr. biographer excavates his own complicated family story.