The Black Man - Black History Month

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

Cecil Williams: how his defiant photo at a white water fountain changed him and defined a movement.

Long before Evander Holyfield, Atlanta had another champion who helped put the city’s boxing scene on the map.

Jamaican music legend Bob Marley's inspired people worldwide to fight for justice and liberation.

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

The story of pioneering Black cyclist Major Taylor. the first authentic and recognized Black sports superstar in America.

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.

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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An Atlanta Constitution article from 1890 first mentions W.E.B. Du Bois as a college student at Harvard.