Co-creating a just world is not a dream anymore. It is already happening. Instead of focusing on figuring out how communities can self-govern, it is important to recognize that BIPOC communities are already self-governing. The real challenge is, How do we challenge the status quo instead of maintaining it?

With a marquee greenspace, a planned Microsoft campus, and other flashy new developments, Grove Park and Bankhead are ground zero for Atlanta gentrification. What happens to the people who are already there?

Neighbors will buy shares of the mixed-use building, earning annual dividends and eventually owning the building outright.

Creating an affordable home for small businesses and local residents in a gentrifying area usually means hoping that some far-away developer will throw the community a bone. But at one site in Atlanta’s Capitol View, a social enterprise organization is trying to flip that script with a permanently affordable project the community itself would own and control.

Neighbors will buy shares of the mixed-use building, earning annual dividends and eventually owning the building outright.

Grammy-nominated singer, actor and activist Janelle Monáe and Belvedere Vodka culminated their 2019 “A Beautiful Future” collaboration with an intimate dinner honoring three Atlantans who share the same vision of a future where equality, diversity and self-expression reign.