Andrea Honaker, Telegraph staff writer
• October 24, 2017
About 30 community members attended an Oct. 24 event hosted by Mercer's Center for Collaborative Journalism, The Telegraph and Georgia Public Broadcasting. It was the fifth public program in the collaborative...
Avery Braxton, Center for Collaborative Journalism
• October 21, 2017
Christy and Tripp Freeman have lived all over the South, from Texas to Tennessee to Atlanta, and now they’re in Macon.
They have made a family here with five children, but they are not a typical one....
Andrea Honaker, Telegraph staff writer
• October 20, 2017
It wasn’t until she was a student in a doctoral program that Sharon Augustine had a professor who wasn’t white like her.
Augustine, now the chair of teacher education at Mercer University’s Macon...
Most school days, you can find Jared Moore teaching freshman English at Northeast High School in Macon.
One recent morning, students all faced each other in their desks. Before they got to discussing...
Emanuela Rendini, Center for Collaborative Journalism
• October 20, 2017
Olivia Williams graduated from Macon’s Central High School in 2010. It was a great school that challenged her overall, she said, but there was one class that didn't interest her: art.
So, Williams’...
Andrea Honaker, Telegraph staff writer
• October 19, 2017
The conversation about school re-segregation will continue this Tuesday. Mercer University’s Center for Collaborative Journalism, Georgia Public Broadcasting and The Telegraph are hosting a community...
“Where do the white kids go to school in Macon?” asked the young black student of mine in Mercer University’s teacher education program.
She had not grown up in Macon and didn’t understand why...
Thelma Dillard had top-notch teachers during her years at Ballard-Hudson Senior High School, but the facilities and resources there were a different story.
The school was still segregated when she attended...
“‘Separate but equal’ is no more true today than it was in 1954.”
Nikole Hannah-Jones told more than 100 community members and journalists Monday night that they aren’t “off the hook”...
“Why does everything have to be about race?”
That’s what Sloan Oliver asked during a community forum about race and Bibb County schools on Jan. 24.
The short answer? When it comes to school...
The proportion of white students attending Bibb County public schools has dropped by more than 40 percent over the last 20 years. At the same time, the population of black students has held relatively...
