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.

Savannah’s 26th annual Pride Festival is facing a significant funding challenge after several corporate sponsors withdrew their support in recent weeks.

Georgia Reps. Viola Davis, Sandra Scott and Kim Schofield recently submitted a letter to Gov. Brian Kemp urging immediate emergency state funding amid food insecurity and healthcare disruptions during...

The sweeping exhibition Monuments, which features 19 contemporary artists, opens in LA on 23 October

 The investigation followed the circulation of a “save Planned Parenthood Southeast” petition that advocates say has garnered over 580 signatures, alleging that new leaders have "dismantled" the organization from the inside. Maya Homan/Georgia Recorder Planned Parenthood Southeast’s board of directors announced this week that it would be hiring a law firm to investigate allegations of mismanagement that reproductive health advocates say threatens to undermine the organization’s mission and has alienated donors and partner organizations. The statement followed the circulation of a “save Planned Parenthood Southeast” petition that advocates say has garnered over 580 signatures, alleging that new leaders have “dismantled” the organization from the inside.