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Visitors to the Tubman African American Museum visit the gift shop Thursday. The Museum's Pan African Festival is this weekend in the parking lot of the Macon Coliseum.

There’s a Tyler Perry experience you can only have in Macon

Sonia Murray, GPB News
February 24, 2023

The Dark Necessities of Jim Crow Macon: Green Book Sites Visualized

Taleen Hanna, Eliza Moore, Kendall Webb, Caris Weinberg and Al Wooten, Center for Collaborative Journalism
December 16, 2022
Visitors to the Tubman African American Museum visit the gift shop Thursday. The Museum's Pan African Festival is this weekend in the parking lot of the Macon Coliseum.

Pan African Festival, craft beers, Fired Works pottery round out April

Thousands of people are expected to attend upcoming festivals in downtown Macon
Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
April 21, 2022
Three life-changing graduation speeches from African-American public figures

Three life-changing graduation speeches from African-American public figures

Samantha Vaquero, Center For Collaborative Journalism
February 2, 2022
Macon-Bibb County Commissioner Paul Bronson, left, explains his rationale for designating Greenwood Bottom as Macon's Black Wall Street. Commissioner Elaine Lucas believes Cotton Avenue is the true origin of the city's African American entrepreneurship.

Where is Macon’s Black Wall Street? Commission debates Greenwood Bottom designation

Macon-Bibb County Commissioners approved airport expansion firms, City Hall upgrades, Complete Streets plan, anti-violence campaign
Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
June 22, 2021
The old Roxy Theatre could be a hub of activity again when its parking lot houses food trucks and a pedestrian plaza in a renaissance of the old Greenwood Bottoms Black business district near Downtown Macon.

Roxy Theatre’s history brings new life to a Macon Black business district

Liz Fabian, Civic Reporting Senior Fellow
December 1, 2020
Emmett Till

Know a talented teen resembling Emmett Till? The movies are calling

Liz Fabian, Civic Reporting Senior Fellow
September 7, 2020
The "colored waiting room" sign at Terminal Station provides an important history lesson, say Black leaders who want the Macon Transit Authority to preserve it.

Should ‘Colored Waiting Room’ be removed from Macon’s Terminal Station? Black leaders speak out

Liz Fabian, Civic Reporting Senior Fellow
July 1, 2020
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