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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 more than 90 Collier Heights community members about the journalism they needed. Many residents shared stories of the neighborhood’s early days as a Black neighborhood, built and ...

Canopy Atlanta asked over 50 Lakewood Heights community members about the journalism they needed. This story emerged from that feedback. Canopy Atlanta also trains and pays community members, our ...

“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 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 ...

From messy drama to new legislation, catch up on the most important moments from metro Atlanta’s latest public meetings—and learn how they impact your life—all in five minutes or less. “Imagine ...

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 ...