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From Auburn Avenue to the world: 100 moments in Black Atlanta history

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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A trio of salads by Mike Jordan. (Mike Jordan/AJC)
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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

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Last Dispatch From Black Mecca

Is Atlanta still America’s Black mecca? Here’s what we found.

A house stands in the Hogg Hummock community of Sapelo Island, Georgia. Its Gullah Geechee residents are descendants of enslaved West Africans brought to the barrier island to work plantations in the 1800s. (Justin Taylor for the AJC)
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Sapelo Island to stay ‘Geechee’: McIntosh Commission to bend on zoning law