Atlanta responded in 2017 by creating an advisory committee to determine what to do with four monuments on city property. That effort produced several new contextual markers and the renaming of ...

ATLANTA — Mayor Kasim Reed has formed a committee to make recommendations on what to do with this city’s Confederate monuments. Some cities, like Baltimore and New Orleans, removed many of ...

ATLANTA — The 1911 Peace Monument sits near the entrance gate to Atlanta's Piedmont Park at 14th Street and Piedmont Avenue. In its original form, the statue included inscriptions commemorating ...

The markers have been many months coming, after former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed created a blue-ribbon commission in late 2017 to address the city’s Confederate monuments and street names.

An Atlanta committee, formed in the aftermath of Charlottesville, previously called for the city to remove at least two Confederate monuments and rename streets that honored the Confederacy or its ...

ATLANTA — Atlanta will soon add some vivid lessons about the South’s racist history on markers placed next to four historic monuments amid the ongoing national debate over Confederate statues.

The King Center in Atlanta, Georgia, has gained a new monument and garden dedicated to civil rights activist Coretta Scott King, the wife of Martin Luther King Jr.

Atlanta’s first black mayor, Maynard Jackson, worked even harder to wrench the Cyclorama away from the Old South. When Jackson was elected in 1974, the painting had fallen into disrepair.

ATLANTA — Atlanta will soon add some vivid lessons about the South's racist history on markers placed next to four historic monuments amid the ongoing national debate over Confederate statues.