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Two older people stand to the sides of a yellow wooden food pantry. To the left of the pantry is a white woman with gray hair in a braid, a blue shirt, and a visor. To the right of the pantry is a taller white man with a baseball hat, long gray hair and a gray beard, and a blue button up shirt.

Canton nonprofit stocks pantries for families in need

Ana Markosi

A blonde white woman wearing a white t-shirt and sunglasses kneels on the ground. Her right arm is wrapped around her daughter, a young girl with long hair and a pink dress, and her left hand is holding three balloons, red, white, and blue stars. Both people are wearing Georgia "I Voted" stickers.

The faces of Fulton County voters on Election Day

Anna Najarian

Four men stand on a pickleball court, two standing on each side of the low net. The men in focus are facing away from the camera, holding rackets and wearing dark workout clothing. The sunset is purple and pink in the distance.

Kennesaw State’s pickleball team is a smashing success

Monaé Templier

A man with a pink shirt and a green penny jersey stands with bent knees in front of a Black nonbinary person holding a basketball. A crowd of people watches the game about to start.

Transgender athletes find support, community in one Atlanta basketball league

Emma Buker

Former president Jimmy Carter stands on the porch of a home holding a key in the air. Next to him, two Black men stand smiling, holding a plank of wood covered in signatures. Behind Carter stand his wife, Rosalynn.

Jimmy Carter’s humanitarian legacy: 100 years in the making

Emma Buker

A greyscale map of the Thomasville Heights neighborhood in southeast Atlanta from 1968. A region of land is highlighted in dark green. The land parcel is empty.

Atlanta tenants expose Millennia Housing’s dangerous trend of negligence

Emma Buker and Evan Bursinger

On the left, a toddler-aged girl wearing a white top with light hair in an updo holds a set of rhythm sticks. On the right, an elderly woman with short white hair and a purple top sits in a chair with another pair of rhythm sticks. The two are smiling at each other.

Unique music therapy program bridges generations

Narda Sigala

Georgia Food Deserts meeting: Bald black man wearing black frame glasses and blue pin-striped suit with left hand on chin to right of a black woman with blond hair in navy suit and white blouse both sit behind brown wood desk in front of American flag and Senate gold seal

Senate study committee makes recommendations to eliminate food deserts in Georgia

Sarah Swetlik

After months of hearing from speakers across the state, four Georgia senators gave their plans to combat food insecurity.

seven people holding a ribbon for a ribbon cutting

First segment of the Atlanta Beltline’s Southside Trail now open

Destiny S. Cook

The Atlanta Beltline has opened the first segment of the Southside Trail.

A brown Atlanta Beltline pole in front of a sign with a upside down peace sign hand sign saying ATL hold it down pick it up

Atlanta Beltline expansion gives a different view

Destiny S. Cook

The Atlanta beltline is strengthening connections within some of the city’s most historic neighborhoods with the Westside and Southside Trail expansions.

seven officers linked up arm to arm in mask in front of a church

Law enforcement and faith leaders will participate in community outreach weekend

Allexa Ceballos, GPB News

The second annual National Faith & Blue Weekend is happening this weekend in cities across the state of Georgia and the nation.

person in a hoodie with jeans and a black belt using a crow bar to get into a black car window

Lawmakers hear complaints about rising auto thefts

Samuel Sinclair

The House of Representatives is debating the best course of action to counter a recent crime wave targeting vehicles that began at the start of the pandemic.