With seven deaths, the DeKalb Jail has surpassed the Fulton County Jail, which has had four deaths in custody so far this year. Deaths in custody can result from a combination of factors including ...

Political analysts fear that the administration’s crackdown on free speech has major implications for Black Americans at odds with its anti-diversity stances.

Founded in 1881 as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, Spelman College once again leads US News 2025 rankings for top HBCU for the 19th year in a row.

Nearly 70,000 immigrants from African countries live in the city, making up 5.2% of the population according to 2023 U.S.

Decades after Betsy and Katrina, the community faces another threat — a canal proposal promising “progress” that could ...

The university’s chief of police and director of public safety said that investigators found no evidence he had been attacked ...

The forests that once sheltered the small town of Roseland are turning brown.

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Hampton University and Virginia State University were the first to report Thursday, and the list grew quickly.

According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, based on a July 11 memo sent out to state departments by Gov. Brian Kemp’s ...

Historians say the closest analogue to today’s uptick in political violence is the 1960s and 1970s. The assassination of ...

Yolanda Jennings, a domestic violence advocate in Philadelphia, first learned about victim compensation funds after her ...