Our weekly feature, Community Notebook, is filled with snippets of information, conversations, and reporting about the ...

At the same time, Southern hip-hop was achieving massive mainstream success. In 1998, No Limit Records — whose roster included Silkk the Shocker, C-Murder, Mia X and Mystikal — was on its way to ...

The Documenters Program, facilitated by Canopy Atlanta as part of the national Documenters initiative, empowers people like you to enhance public knowledge by getting paid to document and report on ...

Canopy Atlanta asked over 140 Tri-Cities community members about the journalism they needed. Residents raised the area’s walkability and existing public transportation as major issues. One East Point ...

Grove Park residents are once again grappling with the loss of a beloved neighborhood business. Bankhead Seafood, a community staple recently revived by Atlanta rappers Killer Mike and T.I., sent ...

Canopy Atlanta asked Bankhead community members about the journalism they needed and this story emerged from that feedback. Canopy Atlanta also trains and pays community members, our Fellows, to learn ...

By Audrey Hamm, Intern Thursday, June 19, 2025 Refuge Coffee, Clarkston, GA About 25 members of the Clarkston community gathered at Refuge Coffee for good food, shopping from Amani’s Women Center, and ...

This story was produced in partnership with WABE. DorMiya Vance, one of the reporters on this story, is a Report for America Fellow covering metro Atlanta’s southside communities, including South ...

Suzanne Collins still sits at the same desk her father, Curtis Collins, once used when she orders seasonal produce and tackles the needs of each day. Shelves built by her brothers still display the ...

Building on the success of our fellowship program, we are excited to launch our first-ever Innovation Lab to further support Fellows and their communities. We asked our entire cohort of fellows to ...

Ahead of the Tri-Cities Community Issue, Canopy Atlanta spoke with over 140 residents who told us which resources would best support their families. These community members helped identify resource ...

Canopy Atlanta asked the Bankhead and Grove Park community members about the journalism they wanted to see about their communities, and this story emerged from that feedback. Canopy Atlanta also ...