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Back to Black: Re-thinking & Revitalizing Black Business in the Macon Community

Kendall Ross, Murphy Center
December 6, 2024
Sen. John Kennedy, who served as chair of the Senate Redistricting Committee, promotes the GOP map during the 2021 special session. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder

Georgia redistricting trial opens with debate over federal requirements for Black representation

Jill Nolin, Georgia Recorder
September 5, 2023
Nicole Persley

Descendant of prominent Maconites ‘shocked’ by family’s hidden secret

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
July 14, 2023
Billed as an exclusive, high-achieving public school, ACE struggles with lack of diversity, finances

Billed as an exclusive, high-achieving public school, ACE struggles with lack of diversity, finances

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
May 31, 2023
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
Remembering one of Macon’s first Black Scholars

Remembering one of Macon’s first Black Scholars

Keith Holmes, Jr, Couric Fellow Intern
July 9, 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
Peace, Love and Captain America - A Southern Souls Story

Peace, Love and Captain America – A Southern Souls Story

Amyre Makupson, WMUB News Director
May 26, 2020
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