Credit: From The Atlanta Journal-Constitution collection at Georgia State University
Hosea Williams: The Great Defier and Founding Father of a New America
Essay on Hosea Williams from author Rolundus Rice, who just penned a new biographer on the civil rights leader.
Credit: Arthur Rudick
Colin Kaepernick: NFL quarterback knelt for anthem, starting a storm
AJC Sepia Black History Month: NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick gained praise, criticism by kneeling during national anthem
How Maynard Jackson Jr. broke the good-old-boys grip on city funds
020123 AAJC JACKSON AIRPORT -- When Maynard Jackson mandated minority participation in 25% of all airport contracts, the business community pushed against Atlanta's first Blac
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Cecil Williams’ high-risk drink of water
Cecil Williams: how his defiant photo at a white water fountain changed him and defined a movement.
Bob Marley: A melodic voice for the voiceless
Jamaican music legend Bob Marley's inspired people worldwide to fight for justice and liberation.
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Angelo Herndon, a Black communist, defeated Georgia’s insurrection law
Angelo Herndon arrived in Atlanta in fall 1931 and by the following year had organized a multi-racial group of 1,000 out-of-work laborers to march on the Fulton County Courtho
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After Vogue and Beyoncé, what’s next for photographer Tyler Mitchell?
Tyler Mitchell, a Marietta native, catapulted to fame in 2018 when he became the first Black photographer featured on the cover of Vogue with his portrait of Beyonce.
Former astronaut’s career links Tuskegee Airmen to International Space Station
Fred Gregory has flown hundreds of different aircraft, overseen the United States’ involvement in the International Space Station, traveled the world and commanded multiple sp
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AJC Deja News: Harvard student W.E.B. Du Bois quite an orator (1890)
An Atlanta Constitution article from 1890 first mentions W.E.B. Du Bois as a college student at Harvard.