By Allison Hutton The Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame calls Hazel Raines the “First Lady of Flight.” This is an accurate description on many counts: Raines was the first woman in Georgia to earn a [...]

By Jamil Zainaldin Between 1917 and 1932, some 5,000 lovingly designed and constructed Rosenwald Schools were built for rural African American children throughout the South [see “Bearing [...]

By Jamil Zainaldin By 1917 the Reconstruction that was to have secured freedom and equal opportunity for 4.5 million former slaves in the South had vanished. In its place was the vision of a “New [...]

By Betty Hollan If you visited Sapelo Island between 1920 and 1968, you may have seen a strong, lean woman briskly walking from one end of the island to the other, a long seven-mile stretch, her [...]

By Chris Dobbs Eugene Bullard was born in Columbus, Georgia, in 1895. As an expatriate in France, he became a boxer, soldier, fighter pilot, business owner, and spy. During his final years, in [...]

By Jamil Zainaldin Life, if we let it, can become a pressure cooker. We never seem satisfied by what we have or where we’ve gotten. There’s one more rung on the ladder to climb, one more [...]

By Daren Wang As of this writing, the social-justice-loving, minority-favored candidate is trouncing the opposition in the polls with more than 88 percent of the vote, and we may at last be on [...]

By Brian Brodrick The name—Atticus Greene Haygood—conjures images of To Kill a Mockingbird and old Georgia, which are both appropriate. If it were not for the New Georgia Encyclopedia, [...]

By Jamil Zainaldin Love, honor, beauty, betrayal, duty. We know these as essences of life. They are also at the heart of the stories told in the poetry and plays of the great, late August Wilson [...]

By Georgia Humanities Staff Henry Bryant remembers how difficult it was 10 years ago to get support for B*ATL—a series of events commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Atlanta. [...]