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Zelma Redding received a honorary doctorate degree in the humanities from Mercer University as part of its 2025 commencement ceremonies. Redding is the widow of Otis Redding and was recognized for her contributions to the community and the arts.

Zelma Redding honored at Mercer’s Graduation

The doctorate in humanities recognizes her contributions to Macon and the larger arts community
Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
May 13, 2025
Former U.S. poet laureate Joy Harjo answers questions from the audience after a reading at Middle Georgia State University in Macon recently. The reading was made possible in part by the Georgia Humanities Council.

How federal cuts to the National Endowment for the Humanities touch Georgia

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
May 7, 2025
On Wednesday, April 9, 2025, 22 people, originally from 15 different nations, took the Oath of Allegiance to become United States citizens at the William Augustus Bootle Federal Courthouse in Macon, Ga. The group was made up of students, mothers, fathers, engineers and even an entomologist.

In Macon, a day to celebrate becoming an American

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
April 14, 2025
A crowd gathered in the Zelma Redding Amphitheater for the official opening March 18, 2025, of the Otis Redding Center for the Arts in Macon, Ga.

New arts center named for soul great Otis Redding is open for education and expression

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
March 20, 2025
Jeremy Robinson (center) and Aliyah Hill perform last checks on packets of Mana Nutrition emergency food supplements for children before packaging them in the nonprofit’s factory in Fitzgerald, Ga. “We save lives,” Robinson said of his part of the work that has saved millions of children globally.

Georgia factory making emergency food for children worldwide is back working for USAID

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
March 5, 2025
Mercer University sophomore Taylor Boyd mounts a piece of the Freedom Seekers exhibit at the Tubman African American Museum in Macon in 2025. The exhibit features so-called “runaway slave ads” researched by students like Boyd. “They had everyday problems just like us,” Boyd said. “Reading their stories and reading that they were running away to families or they had lovers — that really just exemplified the importance of why we need to showcase this.”

Tubman museum’s newspaper ad exhibition honors the humanity of enslaved people

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
February 24, 2025
Kennnesaw State University architecture students present their final designs for a mixed use development in Macon's Greenwood Bottom neighborhood to residents and community leaders.

For Kennesaw State students, the first step in revitalizing Macon’s Greenwood Bottom is listening

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
December 11, 2024
Angel Irving, second from right, talks with Atlanta landscape architect and planner Lauren Standish, right, during a community meeting Thursday about the proposed East Bank redevelopment project at the old Bibb Mill site. Irving said as the project goes forward, she wants assurances that on site jobs are open to local workers.

East Macon residents ask developers to keep an eye out for them in the East Bank Project

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
November 22, 2024
A catastrophically damaged timber stand in Treutlen County is seen from Ben Gillis' truck.

Hurricane Helene knocked a massive hole in Georgia’s timber industry

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
November 18, 2024
Carrie Proffitt protests in 2023 across from the Georgia Governor's Mansion with photos of her son who took his own life in a Georgia Department of Corrections prison.

The federal Department of Justice: ‘deliberate indifference’ to violence in Georgia prisons

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
October 2, 2024
Pleasant Hill residents and an architectural rendering of an apartment block planned for the lot with the playground behind them after the announcement of Pleasant Hill Landing Sept. 19, 2024.

Pleasant Hill to get new affordable housing

Rent will be capped at $600 in the 64-apartment development
Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
September 20, 2024
The grave of Blanche Haywood. Until recent work by preservationists in the historically African American Oak Ridge Cemetery, the grave of the woman born in the 1840s was completely hidden by the understory.

Unerasing the history of Macon’s Oak Ridge African American cemetery

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
August 24, 2024
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