Our weekly feature, Community Notebook, is filled with snippets of information, conversations, and reporting about the ...

Grove Park residents are once again grappling with the loss of a beloved neighborhood business. Bankhead Seafood, a community staple recently revived by Atlanta rappers Killer Mike and T.I., sent ...

By Audrey Hamm, Intern Thursday, June 19, 2025 Refuge Coffee, Clarkston, GA About 25 members of the Clarkston community gathered at Refuge Coffee for good food, shopping from Amani’s Women Center, and ...

After more than eights weeks of community conversations and listening in Clarkston, Canopy Atlanta hosted the Clarkston Community Social to honor the diversity of life experiences, cultures, and ...

At the same time, Southern hip-hop was achieving massive mainstream success. In 1998, No Limit Records — whose roster included Silkk the Shocker, C-Murder, Mia X and Mystikal — was on its way to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Suzanne Collins still sits at the same desk her father, Curtis Collins, once used when she orders seasonal produce and tackles the needs of each day. Shelves built by her brothers still display the ...

Building on the success of our fellowship program, we are excited to launch our first-ever Innovation Lab to further support Fellows and their communities. We asked our entire cohort of fellows to ...

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 ...

This story was produced in partnership with WABE. DorMiya Vance, one of the reporters on this story, is a Report for America Fellow covering metro Atlanta’s southside communities, including South ...

Even though Georgia posted record voter turnout numbers statewide for its presidential and midterm elections in 2020 and 2022, voter turnout remained low in predominantly Black and lower-income ...