Georgia's Fulton County is among a number of suburban districts turning to national non-profit AVID to shrink achievement gaps and get students of color ready for college.
Former slaves set up the community of Hog Hammock so that, separated from the mainland, they could farm, raise livestock, and preserve elements of their African heritage, including the English Creole/African Gullah dialect.
Though scooter-shares have led to sidewalk safety concerns, they're also an accessible transportation option.
Most of the country is making it easier for former felons to vote. But in the South, the number of voters removed due to felonies has nearly doubled in the past decade, an APM Reports/Pacific Standard analysis shows.
Of the more than 50,000 people in the state whose voter registrations are frozen or "pending," about 98 percent live in urban areas.
The question of how one society could arrive at such diametrically opposed visions of its own history is one that vexes not just Georgia.
Hours before a televised ceremony, the sites of King's crypt and church saw a steady stream of visitors.
No children were harmed in the incident, which comes just two weeks after a gunman killed 17 students at a Florida high school.
The West is ignoring a dangerous socio-political duality between pro-Western and pro-Soviet populations that continue to fester in the country.
As states have stopped funding driver's education, participation has declined, with lower-income teens and teens of color missing out.
Atlanta is pushing to be the home of the tech giant's second headquarters, but Georgia's continued efforts to pass religious freedom laws could impede that plan.
Dozens of American counties saw hundreds, if not thousands, of new units developed between 2015 and 2016.
Handel, a Republican, won the most expensive congressional race in American history.
Democrat Jon Ossoff raised a lot from small, individual donations, while dark money groups gave about one-fifth of all the money in the race.
A Department of Justice investigation found that Georgia is giving thousands of kids with behavioral issues a subpar education and putting them in the same run-down buildings that served black children decades ago.
From 2000–2013, Atlanta has fallen further behind other large metros in growing its population of college-educated young adults.
Why can't The ATL keep more than 50 percent of Georgia Tech’s graduates? It's about aspiration, not place-failure.