Letter from Atlanta

Ebony by William Jelani Cobb | Feb. 23, 2009 (Special Report)

There is no single number, no weighted index to explain what it means to have the real possibility of a black president, and while 40% of black children remain below the poverty line and a million black men languish in prison. There is no index, but there is a case study of these irreconcilable developments, a place where the balance sheet of progress and failure is as simple as a zip code. And that place is Atlanta. Full Story »

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by Sean Nixon - Mar. 1, 2009

The writer gave a good sense and feel of the woman he interviewed. He also gave the reader a sense of Atlanta's texture and culture in his writing. He also gave a interesting parallel of the dynamic that exists between the old Harlem of the past and the Atlanta of today.