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A gathering in Athens ahead of Memorial Day will mark the killings of nine Black World War II soldiers at the hands of whites on Georgia soil.

Amplifying Atlanta

The book is an extensive look at how coverage of the American civil rights movement changed public opinion

Autherine Lucy Foster, who faced racist mobs and death threats as the first Black student to attend the University of Alabama, and who was suspended and ultimately expelled by a school board that was unable or unwilling to ensure her safety, died Wednesday at 92.

Gabrielle Dudley and Hank Klibanoff are two of the first members of the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board, which will examine government records of unpunished, racially motivated murders of Black Americans from 1940-1980.

On those notepads, I’ve scribbled the words of people who are famous and those you’ve never heard of, and jotted notes about all sorts of stories from all sorts of

Where ATL meets NPR

Hank Klibanoff's podcast “Buried Truths,” which is about long-ago racially motivated killings in Georgia, has won a Peabody Award. This season, though, Klibanoff decided to tackle a more current case: last year’s death of Ahmaud Arbery.

For all the historical acclaim a journalist may have gained by being their newspaper’s first Black employee or by broadcasting brutality, that praise does little for the person trying to pay their rent. It does not even offer job security. Despite his many achievements, Lomax lost more than one job. But Lomax’s life is not only a reminder of the stark difficulties of media and of the protections writers deserve.