Since opening its doors in March, the Margaret Compton Recovery Hub has become a safe place for dozens of Knox County residents in their hours of need.
Rare historic footage discovered in home movies February 17, 2021 UGA Libraries preserves film of Augusta’s African American community Even in black and white with no audio, a home movie of families gathering and men playing trombones and marching to the beat of bass drums through the streets of Augusta, Georgia, presents a vivid picture of a community often underrepresented in archival and historical materials. Discovered in a decades-old film can, the home movie, which features a convention parade of an African American fraternal order known as the Black Elks, as well as a glimpse of life in the Laney Walker area of the city during the Jim Crow era, has been restored, digitized and preserved in the Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, the only archives in Georgia devoted to preserving the state’s moving image heritage. The footage is freely available online through the Brown Media Archives website.