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News Articles: Black history

A billboard encouraging residents to “vote yes” on Jan. 20, in support of the Geechee community on Sapelo Island. Jan. 7, 2026, in Darien. Credit: Justin Taylor/The Current GA/Catchlight Local/Report for America

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  • Politics

As McIntosh votes on zoning, Sapelo’s future is unclear

‘It’s about the treatment and governance of Gullah Geechee people and communities throughout the state of Georgia.’

January 12, 2026
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By:
  • Mary Landers and
  • The Current
Renfrow Smith in her cap and gown the day she graduated from Grinnell College in 1937.

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  • Obituaries

Edith Renfrow Smith, pioneer and witness to history, dies at 111

Last year, for Black History Month, NPR's Scott Simon spoke with Edith Renfrow Smith of Chicago, who has died at 111 years old.

January 06, 2026
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By:
  • Scott Simon and
  • Ed McNulty
World Heavyweight champ Joseph Louis Barrow (aka Joe Louis) sews on the stripes of a technical sergeant--to which he has been promoted" April 10, 1945

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  • News

How boxer Joe Louis went from heavyweight champ to civil rights advocate

A new book by a Georgia Tech professor traces the boxer's evolution from athlete to activist.

December 31, 2025
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By:
  • Peter Biello
the museum is a large glass building and a brown

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  • News

An Atlanta civil rights museum just reopened after four years. Now it’s double the size

City leaders and donors gathered for a ribbon-cutting celebrating the $57 million expansion at The National Center for Civil and Human Rights.

November 05, 2025
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By:
  • Amanda Andrews
Then-Chicago mayoral candidate Carol Moseley Braun talks to a reporter at Yolk restaurant in Chicago on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011.

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  • Books

The first Black woman U.S. Senator looks back on her political career in new memoir

Carol Moseley Braun is no stranger to stepping into new territory. She was the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate now she shares that experience a new memoir.

June 27, 2025
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By:
  • Michel Martin and
  • Nia Dumas
Juneteenthmenu

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  • News

The celebratory food traditions of Juneteenth

One of the most prominent ways people celebrate Juneteenth is through food. Juneteenth festivities typically incorporate red foods and usually offer red drinks and cocktails. 

June 19, 2025
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By:
  • Sara Sedghi and
  • Rough Draft Atlanta
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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By:
  • 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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By:
  • 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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By:
  • 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
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