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) ...

In 2019, the U.S. Census reported that 51% of Atlanta’s residents were Black. However, the new data shows that number dropped to 47% in 2020.

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 ...

In those neighborhoods, the city lost more than 22,000 Black residents while gaining almost 23,000 white residents. The 16 gentrified Black-majority tracts were the fifth most among metro areas.

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.