Black History Month

Herndon Stadium was one of HBCU football's most storied venues, even hosting Olympic events, before Morris Brown College was forced to sell it. Now it might be demolished.

Operating in the early 1980s when graffiti was a bad word, United Kings was the city’s first graffiti crew.

Blind Willie McTell, the Georgia-born 12-string guitar bluesman, recorded dozens of songs in the 1920s and 1930s, and is a member of the Georgia Music Hall of Fame.

Atlanta's Black Streaks were Black motorcycle racers who raced the tracks at Atlanta Motordrome and Lakewood Speedway more than 100 years ago.

Atlanta native Mattiwilda Dobbs, aunt of Maynard Jackson, was one of the first African-American opera singers to perform on major stages around the world.

The art museums of Clark Atlanta University and Spelman College, two of the HBCUS in Atlanta, are treasure troves, including works by Henry Ossawa Tanner, Hale Woodruff, Eliza...

Since the 1930s, Atlanta hairstylists and beauty influencers have made the city a hub for the celebration and preservation of Black hair culture and its history.

SUNDAY LIVING: 021923 BHM Peon Resist – In 1921, a white farmer and a black man who worked for him were convicted in the murders of 11 black men in Newton County.

Though African Americans make up only about 32 percent of the state’s population, around 71 percent of the roughly 2,500 Georgians who were newly diagnosed with HIV in 2019 we...

As some Superfund sites around Brunswick, Georgia, are clearned up, a team of Emory scientists have found evidence of contaminants in some residents' blood.

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

The inimitable Celia Cruz helped popularize Afro-Caribbean rhythms – and Spanish-language music overall. But to one metro Atlanta rwoman, she was just "tia."

Author Tayari Jones writes about Johnnetta Cole. As a first year student, Jones recalls being transfixed and transformed by the college’s first Black woman president.

When Lorenzo Jelks joined WSB-TV in 1967, the station didn't show his face on air to avoid angering many white viewers.

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