Low clinical trial participation among the Black community is fueled by things like mistrust of the medical system, economic inequities, and a lack of awareness about the trials themselves. One woman started a foundation change all that.
Billions of dollars in spending for passenger rail announced Friday by the Biden administration includes thepossibility of high-speed rail between Atlanta and Charlotte, N.C.
A plan by the world’s largest real estate company to open a toxic log fumigation plant in a rural African-American community faces opposition from local elected officials.
On the Monday, Dec. 11 edition of Georgia Today: The trial begins to determine how much Rudy Giuliani will have to pay two Georgia election workers he falsely accused of fraud; Sen. Jon Ossoff announces federal funding to help protect Tybee Island from flooding; and Atlanta's Mercedes Benz Stadium will host the Georgia high school football championships for the first time in five years.
Is a newly redrawn congressional map, along with two revised legislative maps, an act of defiance or exactly what federal Judge Steve Jones instructed lawmakers to do when he struck down Georgia’s political maps for diluting the voting strength of Black voters?
Georgia U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff has announced new federal funding to help protect Tybee Island from coastal flooding.
A trial is set to get underway in Washington Monday to determine how much Rudy Giuliani will have to pay two Georgia election workers.
Black communities in Georgia have disproportionately high fatality rates from certain diseases, but less than 5 percent of participants in clinical trials for treating chronic diseases and cancers are Black. A national initiative is seeking to change that.
A shortage of housing for Georgia’s growing workforce is becoming a greater issue for the state’s economic prospects as it works to attract more manufacturers and big businesses who want to know where their employees will live.
Construction on Columbus’ new judicial center got the final green light from city councilors Tuesday as they committed to building the new courthouse on the north side of the existing Government Center block.
The “thunder of doom” echoed throughout the valley and hills as a cloud of white smoke plumed downrange Tuesday afternoon at the tank range at Fort Moore.
On the Friday Dec. 8 edition of Georgia Today: Fulton County's new jail could cost Georgia taxpayers $2 billion; bad news for fans of Atlanta's annual Peach Drop ceremony; and a journalist who writes about race finds his most important story through a discovery about his own family.
In late fall each year for the past half-century, beneath 100-yard-long, metal-roofed sheds at the Macon State Farmers Market, a propped-up forest of fresh-cut Christmas trees has burgeoned and gradually, by mid-December, vanished before Greg Slaughter’s eyes.
