Jacob Ethel remembers the initial feeling of anger that swept over him when he first watched the video of George Floyd. He says he saw the “callousness” of the police officer who knelt on Floyd’s neck and the surrounding officers who stood by and did nothing. “It was eye-opening for me,” he says. “Especially being…

How did our COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund distribute more than $17 million dollars to the most in need in our community in a matter of weeks? With a lot of help from our friends like Lucy at BELUX Coffee Roasters. How did you hear about the COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund? We are good…

George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man from Minneapolis, died May 25 after being handcuffed and pinned to the ground by a white police officer who held his knee on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes. Floyd’s death was captured on video, shared worldwide, and then set off a global movement of protests that quickly spread…

Rarely is toilet paper ever something you give much thought to — until you’re out of it, that is. We are, as a country, facing an unprecedented crisis. The pandemic outbreak of the novel coronavirus has forced much of the world into an at least semi-quarantined state, and one of the most unlikely outcomes of…

Think of a child in the Fulton County School System. He’s in fourth grade, in a few years, he’ll be in middle school and before you know it, he’ll be walking across the stage with diploma in hand. This little boy’s life hasn’t always been the easiest — his mother had difficulty keeping a full-time…

Requests for help have flooded into Giving Kitchen — a nonprofit agency that provides emergency assistance to food service workers across Georgia — led by executive director Bryan Schroeder. In the first three days of the COVID-19 crisis, Giving Kitchen received more requests for assistance than all of 2018. While Giving Kitchen has a strong…