At 3 am, after a funeral procession-style performance and between a soul-stirring set by the house band Reverence and the final open jam session, someone called for everyone who had ever graced the ...

Join us for a powerful conversation that brings back to public memory the often-overlooked women of Collier Heights—those who lived in, nurtured, and shaped this historic community. While narratives ...

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 ...

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 ...

This story is part of Canopy Atlanta’s Barriers and Bridges Election Project. Learn more about the series and the project here. Support our community-powered work today. Here is a primer on the ...

Canopy Atlanta asked over 50 Lakewood Heights residents about the journalism they needed. This story emerged from feedback to “see more information and acknowledgment of the community’s history,” as ...

ANGY MOSS IS SO ACCUSTOMED to hearing it that it barely registered when Atlanta’s new mayor said it. Like many before him, Andre Dickens invoked the phrase, “from Bankhead to Buckhead,” while ...

How we reported this story: Canopy Atlanta asked over 140 community members in College Park, East Point, and Hapeville about the journalism they needed. The resources listed in this guide emerged from ...

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 ...

It became a buzzword in 2020, but “mutual aid” isn’t charity—it’s about creating a culture of collectivity. Here’s how some Atlanta organizations are putting that philosophy into action. On a recent ...

AROUND 2016, HUNDREDS OF Forest Park’s Hispanic residents and business owners crowded into Las Nubes, a large event hall on Old Dixie Highway for an unprecedented, standing room–only public meeting on ...

In 2025, Canopy Atlanta launched our first-ever Innovation Lab, made up of five Canopy Atlanta Fellows creating projects to provide information to their communities. One of those Fellows, Nzingha ...