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The Trump administration cut funds to SNAP on Saturday, putting at risk the 1.4 million Georgians who depend on SNAP to feed their families,

16-year-olds work, pay taxes, and contribute to their communities — but we’re shut out of the voting booth. That’s taxation without representation, and it’s time to change it.

Campaigning for two seats on the Public Service Commission has intensified as Republicans fear an upset due to low voter turnout in an off-year election.

Spelman College has announced a transformative, unrestricted $38 million gift from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, marking her second significant investment in the college in five years. According to a press release, the contribution will "accelerate Spelman’s strategic vision, strengthening student access and affordability, and allowing for critical investment in modernizing technology infrastructure." The release said Scott’s gift enables Spelman to address two of its most pressing strategic priorities: Expanding financial aid and scholarship support to ensure that talented scholars, regardless of their financial background, can complete their education and thrive, and investing in a state-of-the-art technology infrastructure to enhance the academic experience, improve administrative efficiency, and prepare students for a digitally driven world.

To help students respond to the threats to voter suppression, teach about the long history of the fight for voting rights.

By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca From voter ID laws to voter-roll purges, gerrymandering to poll closures to the deadly in-person voting conditions during a pandemic, the right to vote is under attack and the st...

Mississippi adopted a state constitution with poll tax and literacy tests to roll back the gains of the Reconstruction era.

About 16.5 percent of DeKalb County residents will lose access to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits on Nov. 5 due to the prolonged federal government shutdown.

Over 1.4 million Georgia residents will lose their SNAP and EBT benefits on Nov. 1 if contingency funds meant to keep the programs operating aren't released. However, efforts are underway at metro Atlanta food justice organizations and nonprofits to help people in need fill in the gaps. Here's where to get food and grocery assistance around metro Atlanta, and where to donate or volunteer your time.

The ACLU and other groups are pressing for ICE to identify and release all pregnant women in custody and to stop detaining anyone known to be pregnant, postpartum or nursing.