The Bug didn’t fund Collier Heights, not in bricks or mortgages. But it coexisted with those systems, filled in gaps, kept cash circulating, and mirrored the same determination that built the houses ...

In what could be called a master class in community organizing, East Point residents showed up to protest a requested variance for a proposed ice manufacturing operation in their neighborhood.

Canopy Atlanta asked over 140 Tri-Cities community members about the journalism they needed. Residents raised the area’s walkability and existing public transportation as major issues. One East Point ...

Playlist compiled by Nile Kendall and Christina Lee. Travis Denson and Vincent Richardson helped turn Bankhead into a hip-hop landmark by selling CDs and white tees out of a bread truck. BEFORE ...

“We were all going to be forced to close down” because of the customer loss, says Elvia Pelayo, whose family owned Don Juan Mexican Grill and helped organize the event. Pelayo says she and her family ...

Canopy Atlanta asked over 50 Lakewood Heights residents about the journalism they needed. This story emerged from feedback to “see more information and acknowledgment of the community’s history,” as ...

ANGY MOSS IS SO ACCUSTOMED to hearing it that it barely registered when Atlanta’s new mayor said it. Like many before him, Andre Dickens invoked the phrase, “from Bankhead to Buckhead,” while ...

Canopy Atlanta asked Bankhead community members about the journalism they needed and this story emerged from that feedback. Canopy Atlanta also trains and pays community members, our Fellows, to learn ...

Justice-impacted Atlantans discuss the impact of the campaign to limit or misinform those formerly convicted about their voting rights. While conducting election listening in some of the lowest voter ...

Canopy Atlanta asked the Bankhead and Grove Park community members about the journalism they wanted to see about their communities, and this story emerged from that feedback. Canopy Atlanta also ...