Remember 2020

Photos, Videos and Stories from the year

Ingred Cruez (left) and Marie Rodriguez help customers from behind acrylic panels during the lunch rush at Matthews Cafeteria on Main Street in Tucker. Ben Gray for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Ben Gray

The words that shaped the way we ate in 2020

April 28, 2020 Carrollton: Camilla White visits her mother Lillian Barber, 90, from outside seeing her through the window while touching fingertips through the glass at Cottage Landing Assisted Living on Tuesday, April 28, 2020, in Carrollton. White didn’t discover there had been several deaths at the home from coronavirus and a significant outbreak until seeing the info on a state website and said that before the outbreak “I would go inside and just lay my head in her lap, but I can’t do none of that anymore.” Curtis Compton ccompton@ajc.com

Curtis Compton

AJC 2020 Photos of the year: Curtis Compton

$April 16, 2020 Atlanta: A shout out to frontline workers during the COVID-19 crisis was expressed by a banner hanging from the Jackson Street Bridge in Atlanta on Thursday, April, 16, 2020 visible to westbound motorists on the John Lewis Freedom Parkway. As of Wednesday evening, 15,260 Georgians had tested positive for COVID-19. That figure represented an increase of 682 cases in 24 hours. Georgia will dramatically expand testing for the novel coronavirus, following weeks of diagnostic rationing that obscured the pandemic’s full effects. For the first time in Georgia, tests will be offered to anyone displaying symptoms of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, state officials said Wednesday. Those symptoms include fever, fatigue and a dry cough. But the state’s public health department has only 5,000 test kits on hand, a tiny fraction of the number that experts say are needed to track and contain the virus. The state has signed a contract to buy additional kits from a Sandy Springs-based company, Ipsum Diagnostics, which recently received emergency federal approval to deploy its newly developed tests. JOHN SPINK/JSPINK@AJC.COM$

JOHN SPINK / AJC

2020 Photos of the Year: John Spink

2020 Stories

5 stories on social justice that shook 2020

5 notable people we lost in 2020

From dust plumes to tornadoes: top 5 weather stories of 2020

Baseball to Brady: 2020’s top 5 sports stories

From coronavirus to Trump: 2020’s top 5 political stories

From vaccines to Trump: top 5 coronavirus stories of 2020

Unemployment to social justice: top 5 business stories of 2020

2020 Images

2020 Photos of the Year: Alyssa Pointer

April 1, 2020 Atlanta - Aerial photo shows very light traffics near Atlanta's "Spaghetti JunctionÓ on Wednesday, April 1, 2020. The NCAA announced on March 12 it is canceling the 2020 men's and women's basketball championships and all other remaining winter and spring sports because of the coronavirus. Atlanta will have to wait until at least 2027 for another opportunity to host the Final Four, which is committed to other cities for the next six years. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

HYOSUB SHIN / AJC

2020 Photos of the Year: Hyosub Shin

October 24, 2019 - Atlanta - Formerly a first grade teacher, Lisa Perrymond took over from a dance teacher that resigned and is preparing a dance for the APS state of the district event. We follow Harper Archer's principal, Dr. Dione Simon Taylor, on her morning routine. Bob Andres / robert.andres@ajc.com

robert.andres@ajc.com

AJC 2020 photos of the year: Bob Andres

June 13, 2020 Ryon Horne photojournalist for the AJC records protestors and police on I-75 after the Rayshard Brooks shooting. (Ben Grey for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Videographers capture steady drumbeat of news of 2020

Mike Luckovich

In his own words: Mike Luckovich’s best of 2020

Columnists

Ligaya Figueras The words that shaped the way we ate in 2020
Rodney Ho 2020 Atlanta movie and TV year in review: Tyler Perry, Netflix, CNN, COVID impact
Bill Torpy Murder, mayhem, donuts and a crazed year in public safety
Gracie Bonds Staples Another COVID-19 victim — ceremony
Ligaya Figueras Despite passage of pandemic relief bill, restaurants still in a precarious state
Mark Bradley A sliver of sanity in a wild year: Alabama wins the SEC
Jim Galloway State Rep. Calvin Smyre and the room where it finally happened