PHOTOS: The AJC celebrates new documentary highlighting ATL hip-hop history

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PHOTOS: The AJC celebrates new documentary highlighting ATL hip-hop history

The AJC's Black culture editor Mike Jordan talks with Kawan "KP" Prather at Center Stage in the hours before the premiere of the AJC's first full-length documentary, "The South Got Something to Say."

A day of panel discussions and interviews preceded the premiere of the AJC's first full-length documentary "The South Got Something to Say" at Center Stage on Nov. 2, 2023.

AJC hip-hop documentary filmmakers, (back row, left to right) writer/producer Ernie Suggs, co-director Ryon Horne, Byron Horne, co-director Tyson A. Horne and (front row) senior editor Sandra Brown and writer/producer DeAsia Paige pose Nov. 2, 2023 outside Center Stage in Atlanta before the premiere of “The South Got Something to Say”.

Filmmakers Ryon (left) and Tyson A. Horne discuss the making of the AJC’s first full-length documentary "The South Got Something to Say" Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023 at Center Stage in Atlanta.

U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock speaks to the crowd before the premiere of the AJC's documentary "The South Got Something to Say" Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023 at Center Stage in Atlanta.

Atlanta music industry veteran Shanti Das during a discussion on women in hip-hop at Center Stage in Midtown Atlanta on Thursday, Nov. 2.

The panel for the discussion on "Documenting the Movement" was one of many that preceded the premiere of the AJC's first full-length documentary "The South Got Something to Say" at Center Stage on Nov. 2, 2023.

A scene from the panel on women in hip-hop.

Former AJC music journalist Sonia Murray, now Digital Content Manager at Georgia Public Broadcasting, during a panel discussion titled "Documenting the Movement" at Center Stage on Nov. 2, 2023.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Najja Parker in a conversation with EarthGang's Johnny Venus and Doctur Dot at Center Stage on Nov. 2, 2023. The day of panel discussions and interviews preceded the premiere of the AJC's first full-length documentary "The South Got Something to Say."

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Credit: Lauren Hubbard

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