Athens-Clarke County
Reporting about Clarke County, Georgia. Some stories will be republished in the Athens Banner-Herald as part of a news-academic partnership with Grady Newsource.
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Clarke Teachers Talk Representation, Life Lessons As Book Challenges Grow in Georgia
Ian Altman spends his weekdays teaching his students at Clarke Central High School about life. He assigns speeches written by James Baldwin, explains passages from novels by Toni Morrison and helps make sense of words written by William Faulkner. As an 11th-grade English teacher in his 18th year of teaching…
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Counting the Cost of Curls: Black Women at UGA Talk About Responses, Resources for Hair
For Black women in America, the stakes are higher when embracing your natural curls, it simply costs more — financially and professionally. “What I have noticed, specifically being in Athens, is that the Black hair care products are more expensive than what I’m used to in Atlanta,” Kelsey Lawrence,…
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UGA Theatre Department Showcases New Student Production
On a brisk February night, the unfamiliar melody of a song drifts through the bottom floor of the University of Georgia’s Fine Arts Building. A minute later, several voices rise in harmony from the rehearsal room down the hall. Wyn Alyse Thomas, a UGA theatre student, and the cast of…
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Athens Bookstore Files First Amendment Rights Lawsuit
Avid Bookshop in Athens has filed a First Amendment lawsuit against Keybo Taylor of the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Department and Benjamin Hayes of the Gwinnett County Jail after shipments of books to an inmate were rejected. The lawsuit, filed on March 15, targets the jail’s mail policy which states that…
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Q&As Reveal Deeper Stories In and Around Athens
Journalism students in Reporting I found a bit more about the people of Athens through a recent set of Q&As with residents — finding, researching and then interviewing people tied to their areas of beat coverage for the semester. Click the images to read the Q&A for each person. …
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ESP to Host Big Hearts Talent Show at Athens Church
Extra Special People, a nonprofit organization serving over 900 individuals with disabilities and their families, will hold its annual talent show Friday at Athens Church. The talent show will feature acts from 48 participants as part of ESP’s efforts to create transformative experiences for people with disabilities such as autism,…
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Navigating Financial Storms: The Spiritual Resilience of Two Black Women Entrepreneurs
Listen to their stories here. Financial burdens are a challenge small businesses owners often face in sustaining their business, especially minority-owned businesses. Adrienne Chappell and Tiffany Moment, two Black women entrepreneurs in Athens, choose to lean on their faith to support them through tough times. “I have to really,…
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Faith on Lumpkin: Rev. Haley Lerner Strives for LGBTQ+ Inclusion at Presbyterian Student Center
Editor’s note: Faith on Lumpkin is a series produced by students in the fall 2023 Religion Reporting class. They were embedded with four student religious groups — UGA BCM (Baptist Collegiate Ministries), Christus Victor Lutheran Church and Student Center, the Presbyterian Student Center, the Episcopal Campus Ministry — that have…
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Local Group Works On Reparations, Linnentown and How to Move Forward
The nonprofit organization Athens Reparations Action was created in August 2022 in order to bring recognition and awareness to what they see as racist policies used to hurt African Americans at the time, such as the Linnentown incident in Athens. “We currently have $45,000 in the bank,” said Co-President Alys…