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The New York Times

Black Workers’ Job Gains May Reverse in Downturn

The New York Times
Everyday Health

Black Communities Fight for Cleaner Air in ‘Cancer Alley’

Everyday Health
Atlanta Magazine

These Streets and The Stories They Tell

Atlanta Magazine
Bloomberg Businessweek

IVF Patients Are Trapped in Limbo and Bracing for the Next Post-Roe Fight

Bloomberg Businessweek
Financial Times

Mashama Bailey is The Most Important Chef in America

Financial Times
Bloomberg Businessweek

How Generations of Black Americans Lost Their Land to Tax Liens

Bloomberg Businessweek
USA Today

As The U.S marks 1 million COVID 19 deaths, a hard hit Georgia county reckons with loss

USA Today
The Atlantic

The Day The Civil Rights Movement Changed

The Atlantic
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

Paid protesters, free lunches and backroom chats: Inside the menthol lobbying machine

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Canopy ATL

The Past and Future of Forest Park's Schools

Canopy ATL
Texas Monthly

The Breakfast Klub

Texas Monthly
The New York Times

In Majority-Black New Orleans, Chefs Are Rewriting ‘Whitewashed’ History

The New York Times
PEOPLE Magazine

Girl, 11, Was Forced by Her Mom to Kill Abusive Stepfather

PEOPLE Magazine
The New York Times

A Love of Beans Goes Beyond The Plate

The New York Times
Black man sitting in Oldsmobile holding cigarette

Everyday Atlanta (Ongoing)

DeRay standing outside with his daughters dogs.

A Man's Theory

Spider in the Treme neighborhood of New Orleans.

Spider's Web

Spider's Web
Thanksgiving day years ago in Logtown, GA captured by my mother on her Polaroid camera.

My Mother's Archive