“The Department of Education is on fire,” added Johnson, who moved from Atlanta to Maryland’s majority-Black Prince George’s ...

The ACLU and local partners are demanding transparency through a new campaign targeting seven states with histories of police misconduct.

The hit movie "Sinners" has made $161 million at the box office, but residents of Clarksdale, Mississippi, where the film is based, are unable to see it because there are no open theaters in town.

Kathy Scott-Lykes lost her son 35-year-old son, Jarvis Lykes, who was killed by a Georgia State Patrol trooper while driving to work on Dec. 29, 2017. (Maansi Srivastava for The 19th) Adrienne Hood ...

One of three remaining YSL trial defendants was sentenced to five years in prison by a Fulton County Superior Court judge Wednesday afternoon. Damekion Garlington was originally facing life in prison ...

The news of Larry Hoover’s pardon by President Donald Trump on Wednesday cast a shadow over Atlanta’s own history with the Gangster Disciples. For the past few years, Atlanta’s top elected officials ...

As infectious diseases like measles, salmonella, and hepatitis quietly spread across the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has gone largely silent. Of particular concern for Atlanta ...

As Atlanta Public Schools are set to close for summer break next week, one of the main questions on Kimberly Duke’s mind is how she will feed her children. The mother of 10, and executive director of ...

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When Keisha Lance Bottoms first ran for mayor of Atlanta in 2018, part of her campaign’s appeal was that she was deeply rooted in Black Atlanta. Supporters loved to wear T-shirts emblazoned with “My ...