Trauma - Black History Month

Many Black communities around Atlanta have voiced concerns about pollution for years but have lacked data to support their claims.

In 1859, Pierce Mease Butler decided to sell 436 enslaved African Americans who worked his plantations in order to settle his massive debts.

A Black History Month look at "double-consciousness," a black American struggle that W.E.B. Du Bois first wrote about in 1897 that remains relevant.

J. Marion Sims is known as the “father of gynecology.” Lesser known is that he experimented on enslaved Black women in Montgomery, Alabama without their consent or anesthesia.

A Black History Month look at the groundbreaking doll test that studied children's attitudes about how color affects being good, pretty and popular.

AJC Sepia Black History Month: 16th Street Baptist Church, site of bombing that killed four young girls in 1963, galvanized civil rights movement

Officially called the “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male,” the federal government oversaw an experiment in which about 400 African-American men in the Ala...

Black History Month: Rosewood, Florida was an all-black community before it was destroyed by whites in a 1923 race riot.

In 1906, the city of Atlanta exploded when as many as 25 African Americans and two whites would die on the downtown streets of Atlanta in a four-day race riot.