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 ...

ATLANTA — The city that gave Martin Luther King Jr. his pulpit and the South its first black mayor may elect its first white one in nearly half a century on Tuesday.

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.

In 1971, Ebony magazine declared Atlanta, Georgia, the "Black Mecca of the South." In the ensuing decades, the city fully embraced the designation, becoming a bastion of black success in politics ...

Atlanta’s skyline is shown, with Bellwood Quarry Reservoir in the foreground, on Dec. 20, 2021. Atlanta was built with slavery’s successor: unpaid convict labor. (Elliott Augustine via AP) ...

Atlanta residents abide by the laws shaped by council committees. In the past four decades, at least one Black woman was chair of a council panel, president of council or mayor of the city.

The skyline of downtown Atlanta, Georgia. ... It gave [Hartsfield], at least for the next 20 years, iron control of the city. So it kind of locked in the Black/white urban regime.

By 2020, there were 3,177 White people and 1,411 Black people living in Kirkwood. Relying on data from the US Census, the study found Atlanta, along with Washington, DC, New York City ...

Herman J. Russell, chairman of BE 100s construction firm H.J.Russell & Co., recounts seven decades in the industry in this exclusive interview with Black Enterprise.

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 ...

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.

Herman J. Russell, chairman of BE 100s construction firm H.J.Russell & Co., recalled his seven decades in the industry in a 2014 interview with BE.