Liz Fabian, Civic Reporting Senior Fellow
• December 1, 2020
The old and rusted Roxy Theatre has been hiding in plain sight for decades near downtown Macon, but those who know its past are building a new future around it.
Wes Stroud, a planner for the Macon Transit...
Jenna Eason, Center for Collaborative Journalism
• December 30, 2017
When Lisa Mayfield was moving to Macon 20 years ago, she told her real estate agent she was going to send her children to public school, but her agent advised against it.
“We were strong supporters...
Members of Central’s class of 1977 were among the first Macon children to spend all or most of their school years in racially integrated schools.
At the 40-year reunion, several Central High alums...
Adam Ragusea, Center for Collaborative Journalism
• December 26, 2017
Avis Felts and Fred Frost hadn’t seen each other since they graduated Central High School in Macon in 1977.
But when they reunited at Healy Point Country Club at their recent 40-year class reunion,...
These maps show roughly where Bibb children live and which schools serve them.
Each dot stands for three children who lived within a small area called a “Census Block Group” in 2010.
Elementary...
The Center For Collaborative Journalism (CCJ) faculty, staff and students joined The Telegraph and GPB in a community engagement project that began in 2016 to examine our community’s experience with...
Kelly Neal works in Macon but lives in Jones County so her two children with intellectual disabilities can attend a public school that can accommodate them.
Ann Tift and her husband sent their four children to Stratford Academy. Tift urges we shift the blame for education inequality away from private schools.
Elzabeth Tammi, Center for Collaborative Journalism
• December 16, 2017
Glenda Earwood Smith, the former dean of students at Wesleyan College, believes Macon has a good public school system that has improved under its current leader.
