BARTOW COUNTY, Ga. - George Washington Carver Park, located on the shores of Lake Allatoona, holds a significant place in history. Built in 1950, it was the first state park in Georgia designated for ...

This month is Black History Month, and the Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History is honoring prominent figures in the ...

Ralph Waldo Quarterman, a civil rights pioneer and Liberty County businessman, is being honored with a statue at the county ...

With over 75,000 books crammed into every nook and cranny, Atlanta Vintage Books is less of a store and more of a literary ...

Columbus sent Smyre to the Capitol back in 1974 where he quickly caught the eye of longtime House Speaker Tom Murphy, who took him under his wing. His portrait now hangs near Murphy’s. Smyre became ...

The Forsyth Descendants Scholarship started in 2022 to help those whose families were affected by the racial expulsion in ...

PONTIAC — Within its first decade of operation, the Underground Railroad was estimated to have helped about 100,000 enslaved ...

Block by Block continues with a look inside a Savannah neighborhood where several civil rights leaders once lived.

Not long after the Civil War, hundreds of Black families lived and thrived in Forsyth County, owning their own land and creating wealth. But in 1912, that development came to a halt after a white ...

Ankrom's interest in Abraham Lincoln led him to a 10-year study of Stephen Douglas. The results have been two award-winning biographies, and Ankrom is working on the final volume of his three-volume ...