Two childhood friends swap stories about growing up in Collier Heights—from watching homegrown parades to playing on the streets—and talk about what it's like to drive through the neighborhood today.

Our weekly feature, Community Notebook, is filled with snippets of information, conversations, and reporting about the ...

Grove Park residents are once again grappling with the loss of a beloved neighborhood business. Bankhead Seafood, a community staple recently revived by Atlanta rappers Killer Mike and T.I., sent ...

At the same time, Southern hip-hop was achieving massive mainstream success. In 1998, No Limit Records — whose roster included Silkk the Shocker, C-Murder, Mia X and Mystikal — was on its way to ...

Canopy Atlanta asked the Bankhead and Grove Park community members about the journalism they wanted to see about their communities, and this story emerged from that feedback. Canopy Atlanta also ...

Canopy Atlanta asked over 140 Tri-Cities community members about the journalism they needed. Residents raised the area’s walkability and existing public transportation as major issues. One East Point ...

Canopy Atlanta asked Bankhead community members about the journalism they needed and this story emerged from that feedback. Canopy Atlanta also trains and pays community members, our Fellows, to learn ...

Brenda Trammell remembers what Lakewood Heights was like when the General Motors plant was still open. She grew up in the area—she still lives in the South Atlanta home she’s been in since 1962—and ...

This story was produced in partnership with WABE. DorMiya Vance, one of the reporters on this story, is a Report for America Fellow covering metro Atlanta’s southside communities, including South ...

“If I could get everyone here to just take a moment,” said Jacqueline Lamar, surveying an energetic crowd gathered on a recent morning in a Mechanicsville parking lot. “Look to your left and look to ...

South DeKalb residents value the kinship of living in a deeply interconnected bedroom community with a rich culture. Just ask dem folks. My family history in South DeKalb begins with my ...