State Rep. Carolyn Hugley is on track to become the first Black speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives after her ...
City leaders and neighbors are mourning 99-year-old Phyllis Lawhorn, a trailblazing educator and community historian who died Tuesday morning in a fire at her northwest Atlanta home.
Dr. Lana Foster says the south Georgia school district where she once helped break the color barrier later mistreated and ...
One of many ways the 2026 midterms were historic — beyond the sheer scale of their rebuke of President Trump — was the election of not just one but two Black governors in former Jim Crow strongholds.
State Rep. Carolyn Hugley (D-Columbus) speaks Nov. 12, 2026, at the Capitol in Atlanta after Georgia House Democrats voted ...
Eight Black women won statewide races in Georgia, marking a historic shift in the state’s political leadership.
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She was arrested while helping during free food distribution.
Party leaders and activists framed the results as a repudiation of Trump and of the Supreme Court’s decision this year.
Keisha Lance Bottoms will be the first U.S. Black woman governor. Seven other Black women also made history winning statewide ...