Dominique Grant said she was in the middle of a mental health crisis when she was pulled over driving on Moreland Avenue by a Georgia State Trooper the Friday before Mother’s Day. Arrested under ...

As lawmakers push for sweeping cuts to Medicaid, fear weighs heavily on Tori Cooper. Cooper, a trans woman who serves as the director of strategic outreach and training for the Human Rights Campaign, ...

Forty-seven percent of Atlanta residents are Black, but the city commonly referred to as the Black Mecca had a homeless population in January that was 80% Black, according to the latest Point-In-Time ...

Jimmy Hill, Tammie Featherstone, Rabbi Peter Berg and members of Greenforest Community Baptist Church gather with Jimmy Hill (center) outside the King Center in Atlanta on May 31 for a prayer vigil in ...

Some good news could be coming to your mailbox or via direct deposit this week. The Georgia Department of Revenue announced this week that it will begin issuing $500 rebate checks to all eligible ...

Iman Phelmon El-Amin (center) accepts an honorary posthumous bachelor's degree from Morehouse College on behalf of his late relative, Dennis T. Hubert, during Morehouse College's commencement ceremony ...

Two men who had been incarcerated in Fulton County Jail for over a year died in custody last week for unrelated reasons. Devin Franklin, movement policy coordinator for the Southern Center for Human ...

A 6-year-old Black girl was called a monkey, the N-word, and physically assaulted by her classmates at Ashford Park Elementary School in DeKalb County, according to a federal civil rights lawsuit ...

An African drum procession. Fraternity members barking in celebration. Black kings adjusting each other’s proverbial crowns. There’s no graduation quite like Morehouse College’s commencement — a ...

Malcolm Walker was grateful to have a roof over his head on Monday after spending the past six months living under a bridge. The 32-year-old Atlanta resident was one of up to 80 unhoused people living ...

Ester Clark has been living a nightmare for the past 22 years, ever since her grandson Danyel Smith was sentenced to life behind bars for the death of his infant son — a tragedy they both say he did ...

Atlanta’s largest homeless encampment is scheduled to be “decommissioned” on Monday as city officials continue working to clear potentially hazardous tent cities in the wake of the January tragedy ...