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Culture & Society
Naomi Whitehead turned 116 on September 26, 2026. Born on a Georgia farm in 1910, she is America's oldest living person and a living link to a century of Black history.
Isaiah Grant · 5 min read
How a 1987 sitcom sent a generation to HBCUs, and what its Netflix heir gets right and wrong.
Camille Bennett · 7 min read
Atlanta's "Jesus Saves" sign sits atop Big Bethel AME, the city's oldest Black congregation, where a college, a public school, and a Depression-era play were born.
Isaiah Grant · 8 min read
Lafayette Gatling didn't set out to shock anybody. He just noticed that grief has a schedule problem, and he built Gatling's Chapel on South Halsted Street to solve it, one car at a time.
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