Discusses the decline of Atlanta, Georgia's vital urban core and of the slash-and-burn policy which reduced Atlanta's proudest street to an enormous strip mall. Atlanta's uneasy relationship with its own past; Arsonous fire at the Mitchell house; Atlanta as a city of contradictions; Union ...
A combat fighter pilot in World War II and the Korean War, Glenn was one of the seven original Mercury astronauts, and the last surviving member of the team that took America’s first steps off of Earth, at a time when the Soviet Union was making momentous advances into space. Tom Wolfe...
risked getting fired for deciding to hop a flight to Atlanta for a game with Hank Aaron a home run away from breaking Babe Ruth’s career record. As the historic homer sailed out of the park, Sager, without thinking, sprinted onto the field and wound up chasing Aaron down the third-bas...
Here isa post I wroteduring my own year abroad about the history of the American Girls Art Club in Paris, which includes some of my own photos to accompany the book. I’m posting a few more below. They may not be the best quality, but hey, I was there and it was cool. You get ...
“I will never forget the violence of the white mob when we left our home,” Fletcher said during his testimony. “I still see Black men being shot, Black bodies lying in the street. I still smell smoke and see fire. I still see Black businesses being burned. I still hear airplanes ...
James Wales, the person convicted in the killing of 12-year-old Cheri Lindsey on Binghamton's North Side, will remain in prison for at least two more years. The 74-year-old Wales has once again been denied parole. He is serving a sentence of 33 years to life for his his 1984 convict...
Howard. Howard was shot in the back while raiding the house of Sam Lowman, father to Bertha and Demon. Klansmen filed by Howard’s body two-by-two when it laid in state. A year after his funeral a cross was burned in the cemetery at his grave. Although the Lowman’s were tried and...
Take a look back at the stars whose light burned out in 2020, but still shines on in the legacies they've left behind.
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