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1906 Race Riot Walking Tour
The Atlanta Way Violence is never becoming. Not even on a battlefield. The Civil War battles that waged in and around the City and the Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 are the two most deadliest events in the City’s history. Phrases like ‘The Atlanta Way’ and ‘The City Too Busy to Hate’, describe Atlanta. They…
Read MoreThe Black aesthetic of artist, Mary Parks Washington
Early Life Mary Parks Washington is an Atlanta-born, fine art artist with decades of holding a dialectic with history and her lived experience. She forge room for herself and other Black and POC artists. She developed her own style of collage which she called “histcollage”, where she incorporated family photographs and documents into paintings. Washington…
Read MoreOur Changing Landscape
Atlanta neighborhoods are changing rapidly. Every day that I fail to travel to a neighborhood, ride down a certain street or simply stay home to work in my garden, I miss the opportunity to say good-bye. Good-bye not just to a felled building or trees but those seldom lamented flowering plants, shrubs, vines, any type of green plant.…
Read MoreAfter Visiting Ebenezer Baptist Church
We all have our own personal experience, even when we are in a group. There is value in what the mind thinks and more importantly what the heart feels. On recent tours participants shared photos and a poem. In the next few blog posts will share these tour artifacts and something of the tour to contextualize…
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