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Thank you to everyone who joined Canopy Atlanta and Refuge Coffee Co. to celebrate the stories, cultures, and people that make Clarkston special.

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 ...

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 ...

Lakewood Heights has changed significantly since the neighborhood was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. That designation cited landmarks from its distant past, from a water ...

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 ...