Thousands of people attend the Sweet Auburn Heritage Festival on Historic Auburn Avenue in Atlanta in 2010. Tracking the city's black and white populations over the decades is a trickier task than ...

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Though the world saw Atlanta as Martin Luther King Jr.’s hometown, the poster child for race relations and a “Black Mecca of the South,” the decades following King’s assassination ...

A new report from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition shows Atlanta has the second-highest number of neighborhoods that flipped from majority-Black to majority-white between 1980 and 2020.

The National Center for Civil and Human Rights will kick off Black History Month with a performance by Giwayen Mata at 12:30 and 1 p.m. Feb. 3. On Feb. 24, there will be a screening of the ...

In the heart of Georgia, Atlanta stands as a testament to African American political empowerment, earning its reputation as the “Black Mecca” through decades of groundbreaking leadership ...

White flight (among other things): Whites moved out of Atlanta in huge numbers from 1960-80 as blacks moved in. It's tempting to call this merely "white flight" and be done with it. But use plenty ...

A new report from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition shows Atlanta has the second-highest number of neighborhoods that flipped from majority-Black to majority-white between 1980 and 2020.