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“My Real Life Work Was Done at Atlanta”: Aldon Morris on W. E. B. Du Bois’ Career in Atlanta

Barbara Harris Combs and Katherine Hankins·May 25, 2017
Barbara Harris Combs and Katherine Hankins interview Aldon Morris about W. E. B. Du Bois’ twenty-three year career at Atlanta University in the early twentieth century. Read More
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A Purposely Built Community: Public Housing Redevelopment and Resident Replacement at East Lake Meadows

Adam Goldstein·March 14, 2017
Adam Goldstein examines the redevelopment of East Lake Meadows in the 1990s and the more complicated history behind the boosterish myths about it. Read More
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Atlanta, the Scott Family, and the Creation of a Media Empire

Thomas Aiello·December 18, 2018
In this excerpt from his recent UGA press monograph The Grapevine of the Black South, Thomas Aiello recounts the origins of the Atlanta Daily World and the Scott Newspaper Syndicate. Read More
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Bronze Hammer: Race and the Politics of Commemorating Henry Louis Aaron

Clif Stratton·February 2, 2021
Clif Stratton examines how race shaped Atlanta’s historical efforts to memorialize the accomplishments of the home run king, Henry Aaron. Read More
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“Creating a City Within a City”: John Portman’s Peachtree Center and Private Urban Renewal in Atlanta

Irene Holliman Way·January 15, 2019
Irene Holliman Way examines the role John Portman played in the re-development of downtown Atlanta during the 1960s and 1970s and the disparate impacts of his "private urban renewal" efforts. Read More
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Analyzing the relationship between major public investments and neighborhood change in Atlanta

Josh Humphries and Kendra Taylor·August 12, 2021
Josh Humphries and Kendra Taylor of the Office of Housing and Community Development explore how to understand neighborhood change in Atlanta relative to public investment, design goals and demographics. Read More
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Atlanta’s War on Density

Joseph Hurley·February 3, 2016
Joseph Hurley examines the "war" on dense neighborhoods with mixed residential and commercial land uses in mid-century Atlanta. Read More
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Emmaus House and Atlanta’s Anti-Poverty Movements

LeeAnn Lands·April 28, 2015
LeeAnn Lands examines the role that Emmaus House played in anti-poverty activism in late 1960s and early 1970s Atlanta. Read More
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A Complex Geography of Black Belonging: Exploring the Black Diasporic Geographies of Metro Atlanta

Kali-Ahset Amen·February 28, 2019
Videos of a roundtable discussion about the diverse Afro-diasporic geographies of the Atlanta metropolitan region, moderated by Kali-Ahset Amen and including commentary from Asia Leeds, Mark Bilal King, Regine O. Jackson, Justin Hosbey, and Aretina Hamilton. Read More
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Art and Activism in 1970s Atlanta

Julia Brock, Teresa Bramlette Reeves, and Kirstie Tepper·October 4, 2016
Julia Brock, Teresa Bramlette Reeves, and Kirstie Tepper discuss the emergence of a new Atlanta art scene in the late 1970s and the central role that women played in it. Read More
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Black Women at the Fore: Perry Homes and the Transformation of Tenant Activism in 1960s Atlanta

Akira Drake Rodriguez·May 26, 2021
In this excerpt from her recent UGA press monograph Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta's Public Housing, Akira Drake Rodriguez examines the role of Black women in tenant association activism and their pursuit for social and spatial justice. Read More
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Excluded from “Everybody’s Neighborhood”? Constructing Sandy Springs’ New City Center

Elisa Lanari·February 9, 2017
Elisa Lanari examines the conflicting interpretations of suburban redevelopment in downtown Sandy Springs. Read More
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