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Nov 29, 2024 | 
ajc.com | Sydney Sims |Capital B Atlanta
You can find Simone Fyffe at Atlantic Station in Midtown most Sundays, standing among the array of tents and tables where dozens of local entrepreneurs gather to market their products to passing customers. Her display is intentionally artsy, decorated with colorful labels that feature a cartoon image of her and art supplies. She has original paintings displayed nearby for purchase, along with honey that she harvests herself and sells.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
ajc.com | John Kennedy |Capital B Atlanta
Clarenton “Nicky” Crawford has devoted his golden years to serving unhoused people in Atlanta — but he’s quick to deflect any praise or recognition for his work. “It’s an incredible feeling to just know that, wow, their lives are being touched and changed by something that we did,” said the retired Stone Mountain resident.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
healthbeat.org | Rebecca Grapevine |Jackie Fortier |Sydney Sims |Capital B Atlanta
Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free Atlanta newsletter here. As a plume of smoke from a chemical fire hangs over metro Atlanta, amid a state of emergency after deadly Hurricane Helene, and in the wake of a Covid surge that hit a new summer high, the Georgia Board of Public Health is absent from the public eye. For the fifth month in a row, the board on Friday canceled its monthly meeting, which had been planned for Tuesday.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
ajc.com | Sydney Sims |Capital B Atlanta
This story was originally published by Capital B Atlanta. In the midst of an environmental PR disaster, BioLab is quickly becoming a household name in America for all the wrong reasons, but I and other Conyers residents have long been familiar with the environmental hazards at the company.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
ajc.com | Chauncey Alcorn |Capital B Atlanta
Justin Mutawassim’s dream of becoming a pilot took flight 22 years ago when, at age 5, he stepped on a plane for the first time during a family trip to Disney World. “I just had a fascination with the airplane itself and how it flew,” Mutawassim recalled in a recent phone interview.That fascination took hold. Today, the Atlanta resident is a pilot for Delta Air Lines, a career opportunity that has elevated his economic prospects. At 27, he says he’s on track to make about $500,000 this year.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
ajc.com | Madeline Thigpen |Capital B Atlanta
Na’Taki Osborne Jelks spent much of her childhood in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in one of the many Black communities along an 85-mile stretch between the city and New Orleans known as “Cancer Alley.” She said growing up in an area wracked by industrial pollution and the health problems that come with it put her on a path to working in environmental justice. “We lived less than a mile away from a pollution generating facility,” Osborne Jelks said.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
ajc.com | Sydney Sims |Capital B Atlanta
This story was originally published by Capital B Atlanta. You can find Simone Fyffe at Atlantic Station in Midtown every Sunday, standing among the array of tents and tables where dozens of local entrepreneurs gather to market their products to passing customers leaving the assortment of restaurants and stores within the shopping plaza. Her display is intentionally artsy, decorated with colorful labels that feature a cartoon image of her and art supplies.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
ajc.com | Chauncey Alcorn |Capital B Atlanta
This story was originally published by Capital B. Morehouse College students packed a campus auditorium Tuesday evening to voice their anger at the decision to invite President Joe Biden to deliver the historically Black institution’s commencement address next month. Most of the estimated 50 students in attendance at Tuesday’s meeting expressed outrage and frustration at Biden’s support for Israel in its war against Hamas.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
ajc.com | Sydney Sims |Capital B Atlanta
It’s been a few weeks since a video of Atlanta native and former NFL star Cam Newton fending off several attackers went viral. As views surged, the tussle slightly overshadowed the reason Newton and everyone else were there. More than 500 youth football players, including Newton’s C1N 7-on-7 team, had gathered for a two-day camp at B.E.S.T. Academy in southwest Atlanta.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
ajc.com | Madeline Thigpen |Capital B Atlanta
In a field where Black women are few and far between, metro Atlanta has had four Black women leading fire departments. While the boys’ club that has dominated firefighting certainly isn’t going anywhere, Black women are making their mark in the fire service. From East Point appointing the country’s first ever Black woman fire chief to Decatur having the first all-female fire command, metro Atlanta has cemented its place in Black firefighting history.
