Personal Journeys: Stories from the AJC

Dikembe Mutombo can laugh heartily at a joke one moment, then talk with dead seriousness about the plight of children who die in Africa from preventable causes.

My mom looks like she always does when she’s sleeping, or at least while she slept since she got sick.

Ryan Hidinger, the young chef whose battle with metastatic cancer inspired the Atlanta hospitality industry to provide better care for its own, has died after a year-long figh...

Modern Georgia was born when a group of maverick lawmakers, including future President Jimmy Carter, won election to the state Senate during the tumultuous years of the civil

A documentary short on Camp Twin Lakes, a place for medically fragile children and those facing life-altering struggles to celebrate summer.

BEAUFORT, S.C. — The Great Santini is not dead. Pat Conroy ensures the legend survives. In the library of Pat’s hospitable Beaufort, S.

You don’t meet many people as persistent as Shirley Sessions. For decades, she pursued details of her husband’s time in World War II.

Decorated veteran Eddie Sessions of Carrollton reveals what it was like to serve in Patton’s Army as a ‘replacement’ soldier during World War II.

Elberton granite carver Mart Clamp wields century-old tools to honor his father’s memory

AJC reporter Johnny Edwards details his journey as a single father raising his daughter, Grace.