“Southern hip-hop deromanticizes the mountaintop as prime real estate” of achievement by “the breaking of limitations about the South as... Read More
Robert Greene II reviews a new book about Andrew Young's impact on Atlanta. Read More
Sameera Fazili reviews a new book that examines the economic and historical constraints faced by African American banks in addressing America's enduring racial wealth gap Read More
Nedra Deadwyler reviews a book that explores the intersections of race, cycling and urban planning. Read More
“Certainly,” Jim Auchmutey of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution writes, Atlanta is “the gay oasis of the South—the place with the most... Read More
Danielle Wiggins reviews a book about the role that African Americans politicians in Atlanta, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere played in the intensification of the criminal justice system over the past half-century Read More
Joycelyn Wilson reviews Gucci Mane's autobiography with an eye towards what it might tell us about the narratives behind Atlanta's famed hip hop scene Read More
Jacob Anbinder reviews a book about the desegregation of American airports with an eye towards what it can teach us about the desegregation of Atlanta's own airport. Read More
Lisa Shannon reviews a new book that examines white and black secondary education in Georgia to illustrate how race impacted women's identity in the New South Read More
Danielle Wiggins reviews Joshua Farrington's recent book on Black Republicans in the context of Atlanta's political history. Read More
Joe Hurley reviews the new "Renewing Inequality" digital project with an eye to what it tells us about urban renewal in Atlanta Read More
Coleman Allums reviews a new book that examines how monuments and place names are socially constructed and contested Read More