Atlanta Magazine
From Black Panther to Malcom X, Ruth E. Carter’s costumes on display at SCAD FASH
The exhibition of the Oscar winner s work runs through September 12
Photograph courtesy of SCAD
She’s worked with some of film’s biggest talents, including Spike Lee, Steven Spielberg, Ryan Coogler, John Singleton and Ava DuVernay.
Longtime costume designer Ruth E. Carter’s over 30 year history in film is documented in the engaging SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film exhibition “Ruth E. Carter: Afrofuturism in Costume Design” open through September 12, 2021.
In 2019, Carter made history by becoming the first Black costumer designer to win an Oscar, for the Marvel blockbuster
By Erica Wright
The Birmingham Times
Few know Birmingham its streets, its schools, its churches as well as Cornell Wesley, the recently named director of the city’s Department of Innovation and Economic Opportunity (IEO).
Wesley, the youngest of three children, grew up in the North Titusville community and attended Glen Iris Elementary School where he was part of the first class to be bused in Center Street Middle School, and A. H. Parker High School. As a teen he was called to preach and delivered his first trial sermon at his home church, South Elyton Baptist Church, before leaving his hometown for Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia.
Atlanta Magazine
60 years of covering Atlanta: The 2010s
March 2019 The first time royalty appeared on an Atlanta cover? Perhaps.
For our January 2021 issue, in honor of our 60th anniversary year, we dug through our archives to present a snapshot of the magazine during each of our six decades. We discovered groundbreaking work, inspiring stories, and, yes, some errors in judgement. Here’s what we found:
The ’10s in 6 Quotes
The city booms after the bust, the South more powerfully confronts its past, and Stacey Abrams plans a progressive revolution
August 2015
Neighbors embrace graffiti at Krog Street Tunnel but organize teams to paint over tags a few blocks west at the Boulevard Tunnel. The city has employed a police officer to infiltrate graffiti circles and make arrests but welcomes artists from around the world to paint murals on facades.
NEW YORK-AUG 5: (L-R) Emily Aaron, Hank Aaron and wife Billye attend the premiere of Lee Daniels’ “The Butler” at the Ziegfeld Theatre on August 5, 2013 in New York City. (Photo credit: Shutterstock.com/Debby Wong)
When baseball legend Hank Aaron died suddenly on Friday, Jan. 22, 2021, some members of the Black community reacted with fear. Medical experts explained Aaron’s passing isn’t necessarily connected to him taking the coronavirus vaccine and hope it doesn’t deter minorities from getting inoculated.
African American luminaries such as Aaron, Ambassador Andrew Young, civil rights icon Xernona Clayton and others took the second novel coronavirus vaccine in a televised event at Atlanta University Center on Jan. 5.
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