The Archive
50 Stories
I Helped Bring Health Care to My Hometown in Rural Florida
I Can’t Remember a Time I Wasn’t Proud to Be Black
My Grandma Relaxed My Hair When I Was 7
My Father Built Atlanta’s First Black History Museum. Now I Lead It.
In a Berlin Church That Hosted Martin Luther King, I Got the Text: ‘We Won’
My Mother Helped Integrate Decatur’s Schools. I Was Among the First Students.
I Spent 30 Years on the Bench in Atlanta, and Saw What Happens When You Give People a Different Path
The Day I Escaped A Klan Rally At Stone Mountain
How We Reported The R. Kelly Story Others Tried To Stop
Learning About The Black Panthers Changed How I Saw Liberation
How Growing Up In Rural Georgia Taught Me The Power Of Community
Once We Had the Same Resources as White Students, Everything Changed
I Organized a Gas Station Boycott Because Racism Should Cost You Customers
Black Health Is About More Than Medicine
My Great-Grandparents Bought a Plantation and Built a Thriving Black Community.
My Father Sued the Klan into Bankruptcy. Iām in Congress Because of Him.
I Wrote John Lewis’ Last Message to America
Black Voters Thought the Battle Was Over. Alabama Had Other Plans.
I’ve Trained More Than 3,000 Black Belts. At 80, I’m Still Teaching.
