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We did it! Canopy Atlanta won the @ATLPressClub News Innovation Award for our @ATLDocumenters program. Thank you to all of the Documenters working to increase access to information, civic participation, and trust in media. Learn more here: canopyatlanta.org/documenters

Canopy Atlanta is joining forces with 285 South! This is an exciting opportunity for CA to expand our community-powered coverage of Metro Atlanta neighborhoods and to create new opportunities for residents to share their stories. Subscribe to 285 South: 285south.com

Nile Kendall and Genia Billingsley, Canopy Atlanta Fellows, are the authors behind our newest story in the Bankhead Issue. Read the full story, written by and for the community: buff.ly/3Pa8X77

✨ BIG NEWS ✨ We’re launching a new way for communities to power journalism. Introducing @atldocumenters, which will pay and train metro Atlantans to document local public meetings.

Also these amazing photos from @canopyatl West End Fellow alum @birokante !!! I just can't

As Bankhead townhome prices edge toward $800K, @Nikishka and @canopyatl Fellow Genia Billingsley center housing prices' impact on legacy Bankhead residents—and assess their solutions: canopyatlanta.org/2022/04/07/ban…

If y'all aren't subscribed to the revamped @canopyatl newsletter—dropping a new story about, by, and with Bankhead every week—you're missing some of the city's best reporting, like this @MinaAnnLee story on Bankhead's, and Atlanta's, cultural history: canopyatlanta.org/newsletter/

Sierra Jenkins, our former intern–turned–fact-checker and researcher, was killed this past weekend in Norfolk, where she was a reporter for @virginianpilot. At 25, her life and career were just beginning. Here, we remember our friend and colleague: atlantamagazine.com/news-culture-a…

We are so excited to finally release Canopy Atlanta's third issue: The Bankhead + Grove Park issue! We can't wait to share more as stories publish weekly. (follow the thread below!)

Went to the ocean to seek #ValerieBoyd. I found her splashing in the surf. I felt her riding on the wind. Oh, Valerie is around. Look for her. Speak to her. Speak her name. Write. Read. Explore. #peace #grief

Atlanta’s runoff election is TOMORROW, November 30. And we wanted the final word to land with Atlanta community members. CA Fellows asked the candidates for mayor and City Council District 3 + 4 questions based on feedback from 150+ west side residents: canopyatlanta.org/2021/11/29/may…

The West End community will choose the stories that go into our first issue. Want to be one of our assigning editors? Tune in to our Facebook Live at 5 p.m. today to learn more, or join our West End Community Advisory Board by this Sunday, June 14: forms.gle/F8qFc2qC7azuCG…

“Freedom dreams are grown and nurtured out of the hardest, barely yielding soul. Our gardens must grow. That is a metaphor and a literal truth.” theparisreview.org/blog/2020/06/0…

Canopy Atlanta’s first digital issue will focus on West End. We're speaking with residents, business owners, and other community members about the stories they want to share. canopyatlanta.org/west-end/

Meet Canopy Atlanta, a new digital publication that will tell unforgettable stories about metro Atlanta—in partnership with communities looking for more thoughtful, nuanced news coverage. canopyatlanta.org

In THE COMMON WIND, rumors of Haitian revolt "spread like wildfire across enslaved communities and sea shanties," bringing "insurgent plantation politics to far-flung port cities in Northern Europe." buff.ly/2Hlyfi5

"I want to write until I die, and I hope to live a long time. I don’t want to reach a plateau; what I am interested in is living, living." Happy birthday to the great Jamaica Kincaid, born on this day in 1949. lithub.com/jamaica-kincai…

ATLANTA, IN CONTEXT: Atlanta Studies posits that “a city is no better than its scholarship” -- and we’ll add its cultural productions. To know what makes contemporary Atlanta, Atlanta -- start here. bit.ly/2F4iydF

I believe the best local journalism is centered around the needs of communities. Local journalism, though, doesn’t always work that way. We need to change that in Atlanta.

What does Afro-diaspora remember that Africa has forgotten?