Diversity
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Photo Gallery: Scenes from South Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade
Hundreds of thousands of spectators gathered for South Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Sunday, March 15, 2026. The parade started in at Andrew Square and moved through South Boston, featuring marching bands, Irish themed floats and local community groups parading through the streets. Emily Laycock, a journalism major in…
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How a Queer Kickball League is Creating a Safe Space in Athens
Robbie Haynes, 32, moved to Athens last July from Orlando, Florida, after his partner, Tyler Goehring, 31, accepted a position as an assistant professor of string music at the University of Georgia. To his surprise, he found that the city did not have any explicitly queer-labeled spaces. Athens, despite its…
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Global Pipeline Fuels Athens Christian Athletics
With a one-way plane ticket to Atlanta and dreams to fulfill, Success Nwabude’s journey began over 5,000 miles away in his home country of Nigeria at age 15. About three years later and finishing out his junior year, Nwabude now has more than 10 offers from Division I programs across…
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Rural Georgians With Disabilities Face Unique Challenges Seeking Long-term Care
Healthcare accessibility in rural Georgia is more than just a premium. For Georgians with disabilities, resources are scarce and the lack of reliable transportation can mean the loss of life-changing care. Some critical barriers for patients include having to travel more than 100 miles to vital resources, such as long-term…
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How Invisible Scars Turn Pain into Purpose
Editor’s Note: This series of stories explores how individuals have turned challenging experiences and obstacles into opportunities — particularly around mental health. July 23, 2017. Freedom Day. That’s when a nightmare ended for Genesis, only six days shy of her 18th birthday. That’s when the FBI finally rescued her. The…
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Return of the Zine: Why These Southerners Reach for Analog in a Digital Era
The University of Georgia’s special collections library, which is housed at the Richard B. Russell Building on the University’s campus, looks like a mausoleum. Sleek marble floors and grand rotunda give way to a series of museum exhibits showcasing the special artifacts housed in the library. Writer, photographer and creative…
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The Price of Inclusion: Redefining Accessibility at Summer Camps
For many children, summer camp is a rite of passage: swimming in the lake, sharing snacks at the top of the hiking trail and staying up late with friends that come together once a year; those memories can last a lifetime. But for children with disabilities, this experience is often…
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Map of Community That was Taken; Researchers’ Search for Residents Who Lived It
When Claire Hagan first began her work as a mayoral fellow for Athens Mayor Kelly Girtz, she never imagined how much work she would pour into the R-51 urban renewal project “I mean, where I picked it up, it was in the very, very early stages of research,” Hagan…
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More Than movement: Indian Dance Teams Build Culture, Community at UGA
Indian dance groups at the University of Georgia are creating spaces for students to connect with their culture and build community through award-winning competition routines. On a predominantly white campus (PWI) where around 62% of the student population identified as white in 2024, student-run Indian dance teams such as UGA…
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One Heart Beat at a Time: Disproportionate Impact of Heart Disease on Black Women
Despite being the leading cause of death for Black women in the United States, cardiovascular disease remains widely unrecognized and undiagnosed. This became reality for Karen Hill, a Georgia mother, who woke up in the middle of the night struggling to breathe. What began as shortness of breath, persistent cough,…