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News Articles: Black history

Members of the Mercer University chapter of Zeta Phi Beta after their performance in the school's recent yard show.

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  • Arts & Culture News

The art of stepping helps connect today's college students to the past

At Mercer University in Macon, students put together a yard show to get back to their educational roots.

May 02, 2025
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By:
  • Loren Reddish and
  • GPB News Staff
A mural depicting Augusta's Black caddies in Sand Hills.

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  • Arts & Culture News

A new mural tells the story of Augusta National's Black caddies

In Augusta’s Sand Hills neighborhood, a 25-foot-long, 1,200-pound golf tee is the latest piece of Masters history.

April 04, 2025
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By:
  • Chase McGee
Hay House executive director Aubrey Newby explains the role of Chester Davis as the first tour guide and docent of the historic home in Macon.

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  • History

Showcasing servants and enslaved people who brought luxury living to Hay House

Macon’s historic mansion shares its research into ‘Untold Stories’ of service and sacrifice 

March 14, 2025
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By:
  • Liz Fabian
Mercer University sophomore Taylor Boyd mounts a piece of the Freedom Seekers exhibit at Tubman African American Museum in Macon. The exhibit features so-called “runaway slave ads” researched by students like Boyd. “They had everyday problems just like us,” Boyd said. “Reading their stories and reading that they were running away to families or they had lovers that really just exemplified the importance of why we need to showcase this.”

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  • History

Tubman museum's newspaper ad exhibition honors the humanity of enslaved people

When enslaved people fled bondage in the 19th-century South, their enslavers were often forced to describe the people they considered property as human beings in "runaway slave ads" in newspapers. 

February 21, 2025
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  • Grant Blankenship

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  • Books

First known cookbook by a Black American woman gets new edition 160 years later

Malinda Russell's A Domestic Cookbook was first published in 1866. It contains least a hundred recipes for sweets, plus recipes for shampoo and cologne – and remedies for toothaches.

February 20, 2025
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By:
  • Neda Ulaby
A flight suit worn by Tuskegee Airmen. Photo by Noah Washington/The Atlanta Voice

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  • Arts & Life

Ruckage honors the Tuskegee Airmen with collection at Bloomingdale’s

The beginning months of 2025 have seen efforts to intentionally erase Black history, but Ruckage, a fashion brand founded by Darryl Bordenave, has countered this with its newest clothing line currently on display at Bloomingdale’s in Lenox Mall, celebrating the legacy of the historic Tuskegee Airmen.

February 18, 2025
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  • Noah Washington

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  • Author Interviews

A new book explains what the color blue can teach us about Black history

Imani Perry traces the history and symbolism of the color blue, from the indigo of the slave trade, to Coretta Scott King's wedding dress, to present day cobalt mining. Her new book is Black in Blues.

January 28, 2025
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By:
  • Tonya Mosley
Signs outside the Sapelo Island Cultural and Revitalization Society, whose members supported a since-canceled referendum to undo zoning changes affecting the island's Hogg Hummock neighborhood.

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  • Politics

Sapelo Island's Gullah Geechee vow to continue fight against rezoning, after judge nixes referendum

“The zoning has an ability to eradicate more of the population, as if it hadn't already been destroyed enough,” one Gullah Geechee resident said.

October 16, 2024
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  • Benjamin Payne
Participants in the recent tour of the Oak Ridge Cemetery in Macon explore the woods around the grave of Blanche Haywood. Until recent work by preservationists in the historically African American cemetery, the grave of the woman born in the 1840s  was completely hidden by the understory.

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  • History

Unerasing the history of Macon's Oak Ridge African American cemetery

In Oak Ridge Cemetery in Macon, Ga., efforts to understand a once willfully forgotten Black cemetery are leading people to a new understanding of their history.

August 22, 2024
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Nurses attend to patients in this historical photo of the children's ward inside Wheatley-Provident Hospital, a Black hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. It opened in 1918, but, like most Black hospitals, it closed following the federal campaign to desegregate hospitals in the 1960s.

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  • Health

Black hospitals vanished in the U.S. decades ago. Some communities have paid a price

Hundreds of Black hospitals in the U.S. closed after passage of the Civil Rights Act when health care became integrated. Black communities lost a source of employment and pride.

August 10, 2024
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By:
  • Lauren Sausser
Civil rights icon Andrew Young signs a book for Sonjia Daymond at the opening of a traveling exhibit chronicling his life, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024 in Thomasville, Ga. (AP Photo/Brendan Farrington)

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  • News

Andrew Young returns to South Georgia city where he first became pastor for exhibit on his life

Civil rights icon Andrew Young has come home to the south Georgia city where he first became a pastor in 1955. Young is billed as the star guest at the opening of a traveling exhibit in Thomasville aptly called "The Many Lives of Andrew Young."

August 09, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Jan Smith hugs members of her legal team after the final hearing before Georgia's Public Service Commission on the issue of whether or not a local railroad can use eminent domain to take rural land which has been in her husband's family since the 1920s.

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  • Economy

Sparta residents and the railroad they oppose get a final hearing

Georgia’s Public Service Commission heard the final oral arguments this week for and against allowing eminent domain to be used to build a new 4-mile rail spur through a majority Black community that opposes it.

August 07, 2024
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
 A statue of Martin Luther King Jr. at the Georgia state Capitol. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder

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  • Education

Georgia schools chief clarifies that advanced African American studies still offered

State Superintendent Richard Woods still doesn’t recommend the course for state approval.

July 29, 2024
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  • Ross Williams

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  • News

State schools chief dropping AP African American studies course

State School Superintendent Richard Woods has decided not to recommend adding an Advanced Placement African American studies course to the state’s curriculum offerings during the upcoming school year. 

July 24, 2024
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  • Dave Williams
The Margaret Mitchell House sits at the corner of 10th and Peachtree Streets in Midtown Atlanta, Ga.  The house was set to re-open after a four-year closure on July 10, 2024.

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  • News

'Gone with the Wind' author's house reopens after 4-year closure with a clearer-eyed view of history

The Margaret Mitchell House was closed in March 2020 because of the pandemic but remained closed for four years to undergo a complete transformation. It's now re-opening — and looks to open visitors' eyes to more of the actual history surrounding the classic story.

July 10, 2024
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  • Orlando Montoya
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