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Cleage memorializes her old boss in the new play Something Moving: A Meditation on Maynard, coming to Ford’s Theatre in September.

Mary Francis Early became the first African-American to graduate from UGA in 1962. Clark Atlanta University education professor James Clayton Young says the 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education ruled racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. “What they did not do is say how would you do that in terms of the practice,” Young told Channel 2′s Tom Jones.

Rick looks back across 50 years of journalism — his work with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and as chief political analyst at CNN — and reflects on his own journey from white privilege to greater awareness.

This week, the Atlanta Braves organization hosted an event for a non-profit that empowers the next generations of community leaders through baseball.

The seven airports named for famous Black Americans, who are honored every time we take flight from one of these locations.