Most weekends, within the shadow of its controversial history, Stone Mountain Park is teeming with a diverse group of attendees. Located just east of Atlanta, Black women gather to power walk along the winding trails while others climb the jagged rocky path to the top of the Confederate memorial in the 3,200 acre park. Billed […]
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History Beneath Our Feet: Where MARTA Runs, Lives Were Once Sold in Atlanta
Back then, they called it Whitehall Street. Today, it’s the Five Points station, where trains rattle beneath pavement and buses exhale their daily breath into the Georgia sun. But before there was MARTA, before the high-rises, before Black folks were paid for the culture that created the pulse of this city, we were on the […]