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WCLK Radio Cuts Puts Atlanta’s Jazz Culture and HBCU Media Training at Risk

Atlanta’s iconic jazz station, Jazz 91.9 WCLK, is fighting to survive. For more than 50 years, the Clark Atlanta University–owned station has been more than a place to hear jazz: it has been a cultural anchor for Black Atlanta and a training ground for generations of AUC students to break into the media industry.  But […]

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‘Work Evaporated Overnight’: Georgia’s Film Industry Weathers a Brutal Downturn

Atlanta has long been the scene where Black creatives could thrive both behind and in front of the camera. Since the 1970s, when then-Gov. Jimmy Carter launched the Georgia Film Office, the opening of Tyler Perry studios and other large-scale production facilities over the past twenty years, and a favorable film tax credit, the state […]

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