Ernie Suggs

The Carter Center, the large Atlanta-based nonprofit founded by Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, holds its first annual retreat since the former president died.

From Bill Campbell to Andre Dickens, each of them shared the legacy of a leader whose influence extended far beyond City Hall.

F. DuBois Bowman, currently dean of the University of Michigan School of Public Health, will assume the presidency at Morehouse College on July 15.

Faye Wattleton was the youngest president of Planned Parenthood and the first African American. She's the keynote speaker at a Planned Parenthood gala in Buckhead on May 17.

“Forever Young: A Tribute to Andrew Young” will recognize the former Atlanta mayor as a towering figure “whose journey has shaped not just Atlanta, but the nation and world.”

The restoration of the Maynard Jackson family home is part of the Jackson family vision for the Spelman community.

Historians, scholars and museum officials throughout Atlanta and the South fear the order could alter the way American history has been taught and digested for decades.

Lisa Young Alston, the daughter of former Atlanta Mayor and United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young, has died. The news comes the same week that Young turned 93.

The old building, built by Black dollars and once the organizational headquarters of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., is in the final stages of a major $10 million renovation.

Shirley Franklin is a tough critic. Especially of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. That is why I approached her with caution last week after a lecture and book signing by the esteemed scholar David Levering Lewis.