Local small-business owner Abigail Baker has seen profits soar for her artificial intelligence integration company, Centient Imagine LLC, over the past three years as more companies embrace the technology and hire her to train their employees to do the same. She wants the next governor of Georgia to help other Black entrepreneurs grow their businesses […]
Chauncey Alcorn
Chauncey Alcorn is Capital B Atlanta's state and local politics reporter.
Posted inPolitics & Policy
New ICE Detention Center Sparks Racial Profiling Fears in Gwinnett County
News of plans to open an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Oakwood is amplifying fears about racial profiling among some people of color in nearby Gwinnett County. That includes Mulberry, Georgia, resident Tracey Fisher. Fisher serves as district director for the Georgia Federation of Democratic Women. She was one of about 15 people […]
Posted inHistory, News
Georgia Leaders Mourn Passing of Civil Rights Icon Jesse Jackson
Atlanta remembers the charismatic speaker who played a major role in national politics and in our own city.
Posted inPolitics & Policy, State Politics
Black Georgians Often Pay More for Car Insurance. This Candidate Wants to Stop It.
Black Georgians often pay more for car insurance than their white neighbors because of non-driving record factors such as their credit score and where they live. It’s a practice state Sen. Nabilah Parkes, D-Duluth, calls “modern-day redlining,” and it’s something she hopes to ban if voters choose her to be the state’s next insurance commissioner […]
Posted inPolitics & Policy, State Politics
Black Male Voters Have Become a Key Focus in the Governor’s Race
Black male voter turn out in Georgia is a problem. Participation declined in 2024 from the levels it reached in 2020, when Democrats won two U.S. Senate seats for the first time in decades. Nationally, it hasn’t reached the same levels it peaked at during Barack Obama’s historic runs in 2008 and 2012. And news […]
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Trump’s Racist Obama Video Is Not a Deal Breaker for Some Black Ga. Republicans
Grove Park resident Andre Dennis — a self-described pro-life, religious conservative — is no fan of Barack Obama. But even he doesn’t think it was wise for President Donald Trump or Trump’s staff to share an AI video depicting the nation’s first Black president and first lady as apes. “Do I think that it was […]
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Fulton County Commissioner Says Black Votes Are Under Threat
Fulton County Commissioner Dana Barrett is sounding the alarm for Black voters in Georgia amid calls by President Donald Trump to nationalize elections. Barrett, who announced her run for secretary of state in January, sounded exasperated over the phone last Wednesday shortly after learning the FBI had raided Fulton County’s Election Hub and Operation Center […]
Posted inCommunity, Housing, Politics & Policy, Public Services
Atlanta Spent $60 Million to Address Homelessness, but the Crisis Persists
As the temperature dropped to around 35 degrees last Wednesday night, Yered Israel wasn’t sure where he’d be sleeping — or whether he’d sleep at all. The 36-year-old, self-identified unhoused man was sitting in the entryway of a Georgia State University garage with his belongings around 9 p.m. last week when he was approached by […]
Posted inElections, Politics & Policy
FBI Seizes 2020 Ballots in Surprise Raid of Atlanta Election Office
Confusion swirled outside the Fulton County Elections Hub and Operation Center in Union City on Wednesday as FBI agents executed a search warrant, catching county commissioners and other elected leaders unaware. According to state Sen. Josh McLaurin, who told Capital B Atlanta he was briefed by a county official, the FBI’s Evidence Response Team showed […]
Posted inCriminal Justice, Politics & Policy
College Park Leaders Seek Answers as ICE Activity Raises Community Fears
While much of the country has eyes trained on the unrest in Minneapolis after the shooting death of Alex Pretti by U.S. Border Patrol agents, some in metro Atlanta are concerned as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement leaders appear to be expanding operations in College Park. Elected officials in the southwest Atlanta suburb say the […]