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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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(3-11 Feb 1984) --- Astronaut Ronald E. McNair, 41-B mission specialist, doubles as 'director' for a movie being 'produced' aboard the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Challenger. McNair’s name tag ('Cecil B. McNair') and beret and slate are all humorous pro

Ronald McNair and the day the future broke

On the 40th anniversary of the Challenger explosion, we examine the life and legacy of a Black astronaut who carried a saxophone — and a nation’s faith — into space.

Wanda Sims Watters stands near where her childhood home was at 205 Elizabeth Street in Decatur on Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. The once thriving Black neighborhood was destroyed in waves from the 1940s-1970s through eminent domain for government housing, facilities and “urban renewal.” (Ben Gray for the AJC)
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Metro Atlanta governments take up reparations amid national challenges

Atlanta's and Decatur’s reparations committees are far from issuing recommendations for specific actions their cities should take.

Brandon “Brannu” Fulton
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‘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.

Basketball player Walt Frazier takes a nostalgic tour of the Sweet Auburn district and the surrounding neighborhoods where he grew up, Dec. 18, 1983. 
(The Atlanta Journal Constitution)

Walt Frazier, former New York Knick basketball star and toast of Manhattan for his flashy style on and off the court, makes a nostalgic tour of some of his old haunts in Atlanta. Atlanta Weekly. Sunday December 18, 1983.

AJCP029-006b, Atlanta Journal Constitution Photographic Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.

Atlanta in Black and white: A century of becoming

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My love for Black Barbie is an ode to my ancestors

Mixed reactions as portrait of Mormon founder unveiled at Morehouse

Mixed reactions as portrait of Mormon founder unveiled at Morehouse

Atlanta Fortune 500 faces probe for potential discrimination against Black workers
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Atlanta Fortune 500 firm faces probe into potential racial discrimination

Profile of podcaster Deante Kyle

Former trucker Deante’ Kyle serves up his thoughts, ‘Grits & Eggs’ style

The verdict is in: Is Atlanta really the Black mecca?

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., speaks during a campaign event for then-Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump in Concord, N.H., on Jan. 19, 2024. (Matt Rourke/AP)
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Response to Trump’s racist post implies there’s more to come

King’s refurbished SCLC headquarters

King’s refurbished SCLC headquarters joins National Park System

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Good grief: Death doula Darnell Lamont Walker releases debut self-help book

Courtney B. Vance

Courtney B. Vance gives voice to the definitive W.E.B. Du Bois biography