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Lorraine Orr, a Woman of Excellence

As chief operations officer for Boys & Girls Clubs of America, one of the largest and most influential youth development…
Juliet Hall, a Woman of Excellence

Juliet Hall created OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITIES, an inspiration-to-action speaking and training platform, in 2016 after 17 years working at Chick-fil-A…
FOOD ABUNDANCE: MaituFoods and Grow Where You Are on Keeping Your Gardens Close

If Eugene Cooke and wife JoVonna Cooke’s big ideas could be distilled into a single mantra, it would be: “Keep…
DeRetta Cole Rhodes, a Woman of Excellence

Simply the Best: For more than 10 years, the highly anticipated  Women of Excellence awards ceremony has recognized world-class women…
Alabama’s ‘Bloody Sunday’ racial violence of 1965 remembered

SELMA, Ala. (AP)—Several members of Congress joined civil rights activists and others Sunday afternoon for the annual commemoration of a…
How Nurse Eunice Rivers Became Involved in the Tuskegee Syphillis Study: A Tale of Prejudice, Betrayal, and Neglect

On May 16th, 1997, President Bill Clinton addressed the nation from The East Room in the White House to issue…
Desegregating blood: A civil rights struggle to remember

Sicily, 1943: Whose blood was this U.S. soldier getting? NARA In December 1941, a few days after the bombing of…
Allison Davis: Forgotten Black scholar studied – and faced – structural racism in 1940s America

Allison Davis, circa 1965. Courtesy of the Davis family. When Black historian Carter G. Woodson founded Negro History Week in…
Black History: The Life and Legacy of Carter G. Woodson [Lecture]

Lecture by Dr. Greg Kimathi Carr on the “Life and Legacy of Carter G. Woodson” — widely known as the…
How talented kids from low-income families become America’s ‘Lost Einsteins’

New research concludes that there are many “Lost Einsteins” in America – children who had the ability to become inventors…
Freedom ain’t free

The most important lesson of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  “Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability,…
King’s Fight for Economic Justice Was Largely Ignored by Mainstream Media

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will always be remembered as a social activist and Baptist minister whose role was…
Q&A with Alex “Cost One” Acosta of Atlanta’s Soul Food Cypher

Soul Food Cypher utilizes the power of speech to transform the lives of individuals and their communities. Founded by Alex…
Three Local Businesses Are the Recipients of Atlanta Emerging Markets Civic Impact Loans

Atlanta Emerging Markets Inc. officially closed on the first round of its new Civic Impact Loans program that will go…
12 Voices: The Kingdom Kees of Marriage “Designed to Be Different”

My husband and I are different.  But opposites attract, right?  When I’m weak, he’s strong.  When he lacks, I abound.  In…
Innovator Tiffany Latrice, TILA Studios: “While practicing in Atlanta, I noticed that there are barriers to entry for women who are artists, especially women of color.”

A little after 10 a.m. on a Saturday morning, two artists enter TILA Studios to set up shop for the day. Colbie…
Women of Excellence 2018