By Hannah E. Jones The case for parks is an easy one to make — increased physical activity within the community, lower levels of stress and a healthier urban environment. But in a city with ...
AUSTIN – A spirit of optimism enveloped the 2022 LINK trip as 120 Atlanta Regional leaders traveled to the capital city of Texas from May 4 to May 7.
By Guest Columnist CARL DISALVO, associate professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology, with BETSY DISALVO, of Georgia Tech, and BEN SHAPIRO, of Georgia State University When people talk about the ...
By Guest Columnist TODD ELLIS, DHA, principal in KPMG’s Health and Government Solutions practice Healthcare and access to medical resources is top of mind for many these days. Whether it’s related to the COVID-19 pandemic, health ...
By Guest Columnist CARDEN WYCKOFF, on behalf of the Save Share Peachtree Coalition Organizing Committee At 9:55 a.m. on March 10, minutes after receiving official notice that the Peachtree Shared Space demonstration project was being ...
By Guest Columnist AISHA YAQOOB MAHMOOD, executive director of Asian American Advocacy Fund Society teaches us that education is the most powerful tool in providing people with the knowledge to better their lives. What if barrier ...
By Guest Columnist STACEY EVANS, Democratic state representative for portions of Atlanta COVID-19 has intensified countless challenges that Georgians have faced both before and during the pandemic. Among those challenges is the critical lack of broadband ...
By Guest Columnist MIKE DOBBINS, Georgia Tech professor of practice and former Atlanta planning commissioner Over the last couple of years, housing costs have shot up in Atlanta. Already rising before, it is now difficult for ...
Thanks to a longstanding partnership between Park Pride and the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation, Atlanta is creating a more equitable park system that will better serve the city’s lower-income communities.
Oakland Cemetery is embarking on its largest rehabilitation program in memory. The $12.5 million project is to begin Tuesday, with Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms scheduled to lead a ceremonial groundbreaking at the 1899 Bell ...
Georgia state senators have begun talks on a potential statewide proposal to prohibit discrimination in housing, jobs, accommodations and more.
Three incongruences around consideration of Native Americans are occurring in real-time in metro Atlanta, just as a national dialogue is spurred by the Federal Reserve, Biden administration and cases pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.
The search for tools to address economic injustices has led two Atlanta-based researchers to propose changes to the federal and state tax codes.
By Guest Columnist TAUHEEDAH BAKER-JONES, chief equity and social justice officer of Atlanta Public Schools When the COVID-19 pandemic hit last March, the digital divide’s impact on public schooling became starkly clear. Now, as the surge ...
By Guest Columnist JASON MARSHALL, executive director at Wesley International Academy When George Floyd was killed, it became the norm for brands and organizations alike to issue statements of solidarity. Well-intentioned and important, these statements have ...
The year 2020 was a year of reckoning with the issues of race, equity and inclusion for a myriad of institutions across our community and nationally. But the High Museum of Art – the leading ...
By Sean Keenan and Sukainah Abid-Kons for Atlanta Civic Circle A proposed Southwest Atlanta development has drawn the ire of neighbors who say blueprints make the residential complex look “like a prison.” Members of the Skip ...
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