Legacy of Service
1968

Hosea Williams at 100: A civil rights legacy lives on through service

On MLK Day, Hosea Helps will mark the centennial of one of King’s closest aides with thousands of meals, plus health screenings, job readiness help and food program enrollment

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Rustin Lorde Community Breakfast celebrates 25th anniversary on MLK Day

The Rustin Lorde Community Breakfast celebrates 25 years of uniting community organizers and members of the Black LGBTQ+ community to recognize two activists on MLK Day.

Obit Claudette Colvin
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Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, who refused to give up bus seat, dies at 86

Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died.

The LineUp
Catch Up on It's UATL
There won't be a Peach Drop this year, but there will always be New Year's resolutions. What are yours? (Jenni Girtman for the AJC)
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‘It’s UATL podcast’: Looking back at the year in Black culture

The 'It’s UATL' podcast hosts talk New Year's resolutions.

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Why social media feels like it’s reading your mind

Media literacy influencer Kelsey Russell joins the "It’s UATL" podcast to explain how algorithms shape what we see and why print helped her take back control.

An undated image demonstrates a squat, a great exercise for building lower body strength, and can be done with a chair to start, and with hand weights as you progress over the long-term. (Gritchelle Fallesgon/The New York Times)
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‘It’s UATL’ podcast: Keeping a positive body image

In the latest episode of the “It’s UATL” podcast, hosts Najja Parker, Nedra Rhone and DeAsia Paige talk about what it means to have a positive body image.

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Staff Picks
WATCH

‘Urban Horseman’ defies odds to bring horse culture to Atlanta

Brandon Fulton is known across Atlanta as the “Urban Horseman,” often seen riding his horses through city streets.

MLK Sora Likeness Visual

In the age of AI, MLK Jr. has a disturbing new life. His family wants it stopped.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s heirs want to stop the digital manipulation of his voice and image in unflattering videos made with AI technology.

Atlanta Mayor Dickens unveils new equity efforts to uplift residents, equity, an Inclusion.
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Atlanta officials quietly rebrand city’s DEI office

The city of Atlanta office overseeing diversity, equity and inclusion is getting a rebrand amid assaults at the federal level on such initiatives.

King Center
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Atlantans, visitors remember legacy of MLK by visiting historic sites

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Nobel Prize dinner, 1965
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As hate rises, revive the Black-Jewish alliance in the spirit of MLK

Doris Sims Johnson leads a news conference on Friday, Jan. 16, 2026, asking the city of Decatur to grant a historic designation to the vacant land on Electric Avenue where the school district is proposing to build an early learning center. The open area was part of the historically Black neighborhood of Beacon Hill. (Ben Gray for the AJC)
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Activists request historic status for Decatur land to stop new school

Tuskegee Airmen

‘Aim High’ Tuskegee Airmen exhibit comes to Children’s Museum of Atlanta

Tiger Woods and Arthur Blank
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Tiger Woods, Arthur Blank teaming up to transform former APS school

Andre Moore

Finding his way to Sesame Street, one AI clip at a time

Terri Denison
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She helped guide Georgia small businesses for decades. Now, she’s retiring.

rustin lorde

Rustin Lorde Community Breakfast celebrates 25th anniversary on MLK Day

1968

Hosea Williams at 100: A civil rights legacy lives on through service

AAJC 011426 Arts calendar
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12 metro Atlanta arts events to look forward to in the coming week