The childhood home of Atlanta’s first Black mayor, Maynard Jackson, has been officially added to the Georgia Register of ...

Fifty years ago, thousands of people from aristocrats to working class Atlantans poured into the city’s Civic Center for a sight that had never been seen before. Maynard Holbrook Jackson, Jr. was on ...

A piece of Atlanta’s history has a new and important mission. The childhood home of Atlanta’s first Black mayor, Maynard Jackson, has been restored. Through a unique partnership, the building will now ...

Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson’s vaunted Bureau of Cultural Affairs was 20 years old in 1994, by the time OutKast dropped the third single from their classic debut ...

In the heart of Atlanta, a new affordable housing project comes from one of the city’s legendary figures. The childhood home of the city’s first Black mayor, Maynard Jackson Jr., will now serve as an ...

The city that became known worldwide as “The Black Mecca” originated when a charismatic and brilliant lawyer named Maynard Jackson became the first Black mayor of Atlanta in 1974. Atlanta City Hall ...

ATLANTA — On Monday the City of Atlanta honored the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of Maynard Jackson. In 1974, Jackson became the first Black mayor of Atlanta. “I’m living in that legacy of ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Maynard Jackson was a Mayor with 24 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1984 Forum. The year with the most videos was 1992 with 12 videos. The year ...

We have yet another election cycle around the corner, dear readers. From my hometown of Atlanta, Georgia, to my adopted home of Louisville, Kentucky, it seems like a million people are running for ...

ATLANTA — Bunnie Jackson-Ransom, the former First Lady of Atlanta, has died at the age of 82. Jackson-Ransom was the ex-wife of the City of Atlanta’s first Black mayor, Maynard Jackson. An influential ...

A fight at Maynard Jackson High School sent a a student to the hospital and caused the school to go on lockdown, Atlanta Public Schools told Channel 2 Action News. The fight began around 8:45 a.m. and ...