A national podcast festival centered on Black voices and culture is returning to Atlanta later this month, bringing a mix of live shows, panel discussions and audience engagement to Pullman Yards. The Black Effect Podcast Festival will be co-hosted by Charlamagne Tha God and DJ Envy of the nationally syndicated radio show, “The Breakfast Club,” […]
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To Build Stable Communities, We Must Tackle Wealth-Stripping and Wealth-Building Together
Efforts to stabilize communities often focus on what we can build: affordable housing, small businesses, childcare, and access to credit. These investments are essential, but they tell only half the story. Across Atlanta’s historically disinvested neighborhoods, wealth is not only scarce — it is actively being stripped away through predatory lending and high-cost financial products. […]
Posted inPoverty & Equity
Corporate Citizenship in Action: FanDuel and Hope Atlanta Strengthen Community Impact
Atlanta is a city on the rise. Growth, investment, and opportunity are shaping our skyline and our future. But alongside that progress is a reality we cannot ignore: too many of our neighbors are still navigating housing instability, food insecurity, and barriers to long-term stability. Meeting this moment requires more than any one organization can […]
Posted inColumns
Performativity and perception are our ruination in ‘The Drama’
Early on in “The Drama,” Charlie (Robert Pattinson) and Emma (Zendaya) are practicing for the first dance at their wedding. They’re doing one of those old-timey, heavily choreographed routines. You know the type – the kind where you’re too busy thinking about the next step to worry about the fact that everyone is watching you […]
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Atlanta Women’s Comedy Film Festival brings ’boutique’ experience in seventh year
Caroline King likes to keep the Atlanta Women’s Comedy Film Festival intimate. It’s not like major festivals where attendees shell out hundreds of dollars to stand in endless lines or cram into premieres. “I really like to think of us as more of a grassroots boutique festival,” King said. “It’s intimate.” King founded the festival […]
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From rail line to green lifeline: Beltline arboretum grows across Atlanta
A two-decade partnership between Atlanta Beltline and Trees Atlanta marks a major milestone, as leaders, residents and volunteers gathered March 12 along the city’s Southwest Trail to recognize the continued growth of the Atlanta Beltline Arboretum. The press conference, held at Trees Atlanta’s headquarters along the Beltline corridor, brought together Clyde Higgs, president and CEO […]
Posted inGuest Column
Beyond NIMBY: What the Westside homeless shelter debate is really about
Atlanta is once again facing a familiar tension. Growth and equity are pulling in different directions, and the westside is caught in between. The debate over a proposed homeless shelter along the Atlanta BeltLine has sparked organized opposition, much of it framed as a fight for economic justice. As detailed in this Urbanize Atlanta report, […]
Posted inCommon Chords
Wilco’s A Ghost is Born and the beautiful static between stations
Success can be a strange kind of thunder. When Chicago’s Wilco emerged from the critical storm surrounding Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, the logical move would have been consolidation, maybe even celebration. Instead, Jeff Tweedy and company turned inward and built something more fragile and more revealing. Their 2004 release A Ghost Is Born feels like a […]
Posted inReporter's Notebook
Reporter’s Notebook: Turandot at the Atlanta Opera, 31st Season at Dad’s Garage, Atlanta Ballet’s two world premieres
Atlanta Opera reimagines Turandot’s unfinished ending for centennial staging The Atlanta Opera will present a new production of Puccini’s Turandot that discards the ending used in nearly every staging for the past century. Opening April 25, exactly 100 years after the opera’s 1926 world premiere, the production uses only music Puccini composed before his death […]
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Holocaust historian, interfaith dialogue expert to lead JCC talk on antisemitism
The Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta will host a conversation on antisemitism featuring Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt and Brendan Murphy, founder of the Bearing Witness Institute for Interreligious and Ecumenical Dialogue. The speakers will examine the origins of antisemitism, why it persists, and what individuals and communities can do in response, according to a […]
Posted inDelaney Tarr
Beltline on track to exceed goal of 5,600 affordable homes by 2030
Atlanta Beltline, Inc. announced today it has built or preserved 4,425 units of affordable housing to date, 79 perent of its goal, well before the self-imposed 2030 deadline. In 2025, the Beltline and its partners “delivered” 299 affordable housing units, with more lined up for 2026. The Beltline has more than doubled the number of […]
Posted inLatest News
Georgia Works makes its new home in the restored Odd Fellows building
Georgia Works reached a major milestone on April 1 when Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens attended the ribbon-cutting celebration of the nonprofit’s new home in the Odd Fellows building on Auburn Avenue. Georgia Works is dedicated to breaking the cycle of homelessness and criminal recidivism by offering housing and employment to […]
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Metro Atlanta wants to crack down on teen takeovers. Where will teens go?
Everybody has a take on the teen takeovers. They are the latest phenomenon to hit Metro Atlanta — unauthorized gatherings of hundreds of teenagers in spots like the Battery, the Beltline and the Mall of Georgia. The meetups sometimes end in chaos. On Feb. 28, a Beltline takeover turned into 14 arrests and 11 confiscated […]
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New Flint Rising Conservation Assistance Fund looks to aid landowners in permanent conservation
The Southern Conservation Trust (SCT) and Georgia Power are teaming up to create the Flint Rising Conservation Assistance Fund, a $300,000 community greenspace initiative that aims to help local landowners hoping to conserve their land in Fayette County and Coweta County, GA, the organizations jointly announced earlier this month. The Southern Conservation Trust, founded in […]
Posted inSmall Business
The Hidden Risk in Your Supply Chain Isn’t Cost. It’s Concentration
For most organizations, supply chain conversations begin and end with cost. What are we paying? Where can we reduce? How do we negotiate better terms? Those questions matter. But they are not the most important ones. The more significant risk, and the one that is often overlooked, is concentration. On paper, supplier consolidation looks smart. […]
Posted inColumns
Odds are, money’s being made from classified information
People who care about sports worry about the ways micro-betting and live betting are creating new ways for corruption to seep in to games. But there is more to worry about than sports.
Posted inStories of Atlanta
Doctor Innkeeper
Long before Atlanta became a city of glass towers and interstates, it was a place where opportunity came by rail—and, now and then, by way of a well-placed connection. One of those invitations came from J. Edgar Thomson, a powerful figure in the railroad world who saw potential not just in a city, but in […]
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Roswell museum spotlights 50 years of Apple innovation with new exhibit
One of metro Atlanta’s lesser-known cultural gems is the Mimms Museum of Technology and Art in Roswell. Commercial real estate developer Lonnie Mimms has spent more than 50 years collecting computers and electronic devices, now showcased at the North Fulton museum. On Wednesday, the Mimms Museum, formerly known as the Computer Museum of America, will […]
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Let people design public spaces
Some truths are self-evident. Spaces work best when they are designed for the people, by the people. I was reminded of this simple (but not often followed) truth when I attended the March 23 Parks & Greenspace Conference, organized by Park Pride each year. Please read the article my colleague – Delaney Tarr – wrote […]
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Madison-Morgan Conservancy receives prestigious national accreditation, enabling conservancy to work with more landowners
The Madison-Morgan Conservancy achieved national accreditation from the Land Trust Accreditation Commission, an independent program of the Land Trust Alliance, in late February. The accreditation comes on the 25th anniversary of the founding of the conservancy, which was originally founded as Georgia’s first countywide conservancy to protect Morgan County’s natural resources. The prestigious accreditation is […]
