by Errin Haines ATLANTA (AP) The message on dozens of billboards across Atlanta is provocative: Black children are an “endangered species.” The eyebrow-raising ads featuring a young Black child are an effort by the anti-abortion movement to use r...

Two ceremonies are planned in March to memorialize a former mayor of Stone Mountain who died last year. Charles “Chuck” Burris, the first African-American mayor of Stone Mountain, passed away in Annapolis, Md., on Feb. 12, 2009, after complicatio...

by Mark Brock Mention (Earvin) Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, and people usually think they are two of the best all-time players in college and NBA history. Then start talking about Panola Way Elementary Assistant Principal Travis Grant in the same br...

by Carla Waldemar This wasn’t the Finian’s Rainbow tour. Save that for folks who get all teary at the mere thought of thatched cottages and shamrocks. That’s so yesterday. Welcome to you-owe-it-to-yourself Ireland, where you can sleep in statel...

Across the Emory University Quadrangle names—solemnly recited one after the other—recalled those who have lost their lives to AIDS. On the ground, the 800-panel AIDS Memorial Quilt commemorated those lives. Each panel is an individual memorial cr...

Atlanta Falcons defensive end Chauncey Davis is calling on Atlantans to donate new bikes for inner-city youth this holiday season to promote exercise and healthy lifestyles 365 days a year. The Chauncey Davis Bike For Life initiative will provide at ...

The hungry need help now more than last year or the year before that, Elisabeth Omilami said Nov. 12. Donations to Omilami’s organization, Hosea Feed the Hungry (HFTH), have decreased 35 percent since the country suffered a recession that began las...

DeKalb County Commissioner Connie Stokes said Nov. 13 she’s frustrated over the county’s preliminary budgetary information for next year – specifically because she hasn’t been able to see it. As the commission anticipates dramatic cuts, inclu...

When a Labrador retriever went exploring under a house in Clarkston he got more of an adventure than he probably expected. On a recent afternoon, DeKalb County Fire Rescue responded to a call from College Avenue in Clarkston, reporting that a dog w...

Recovered infant, saved from storm drain, died Friday by Jonathan Cribbsjonathan@dekalbchamp.com As she sat on her front porch Friday afternoon looking at her front lawn, 61-year-old Anni Harris couldn’t really fathom what had happened to her nei...