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Customers walk among the storefronts at the New Black Wall Street Market on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022, in Lithonia, Georgia. The market has been in operation for over a year and gives Black business owners the opportunity to sell their products. (Christina Matacotta for the AJC)
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New Black Wall Street Market opened to fanfare. It’s soon closing.

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Whitney Houston foundation celebrates legacy with pickleball in Alpharetta

From left, Oprah Winfrey, Rihanna, Tyler Perry and Michael Jordan are four of the world’s 27 Black billionaires, according to Forbes. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times;  Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP; Nina Westervelt/The New York Times; Thibault Camus/AP)
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Forbes: These are the world’s 27 Black billionaires

"The South in Color" by Gordon Parks at Jackson Fine Art

Black culture embraces main-character energy at these spring arts events

The Alpha Kappa Alpha tree at Howard University in Washington, on Sept. 24, 2024. (Jason Andrew/New York Times)

Spring fever: Children of notable Atlantans become ‘Divine Nine’ members

‘It’s UATL’ podcast: How Spice beat death and found her ‘Soft Girl Era’
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‘It’s UATL’ podcast: How Spice beat death and found her ‘Soft Girl Era’

Feb. 6, 2014

Honoring C.T. Vivian’s legacy through the power of the pen

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Pulitzer Prize finalist Danez Smith to bring honesty, verse to Emory

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Revisiting Dick Gregory’s ‘Seven Million Steps’ for young readers

ICE at Atlanta airport appears to step into some TSA functions

Aniaba N’guessan came to Morehouse unsure. Now he’s a Rhodes scholar.