The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. At the Georgia Museum of Natural History, every day is a bones day. On Dec. 7, ...

Michael Thurmond thought he was reading familiar history at the burial place of Georgia’s colonial founder. Then a single sentence on a marble plaque extolling the accomplishments of James Edward ...

In the 1970s, most textbooks about Georgia history glossed over topics such as slavery and Reconstruction, the civil rights movement and voter disenfranchisement. Atlanta City Schools used its own ...

JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. - With its sun-soaked beaches and centuries-old oak trees, there’s a romance and drama to Georgia’s Jekyll Island that once lured some of the most powerful families in America.

MACON, Ga. — Thousands of documents connected to slavery in Bibb County are available to the public. It's called The Enslaved People Project. This database contains slave records that date back to the ...