Atlanta has long been the scene where Black creatives could thrive both behind and in front of the camera. Since the 1970s, when then-Gov. Jimmy Carter launched the Georgia Film Office, the opening of Tyler Perry studios and other large-scale production facilities over the past twenty years, and a favorable film tax credit, the state […]
Rebekah Sager
Rebekah Sager is an award-winning reporter focusing on culture, race, mental health, and reproductive rights. She is a 2022-2023 recipient of the Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism, and her work has been featured in The Washington Post, Sisters from AARP, Playboy, Cosmopolitan, VICE, NBC, Capital B, and more. She is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University.
Posted inTechnology
‘Digital Resistance’: Black Coders Battle Biased AI Systems
For African Americans, providing our data to artificial intelligence — or AI — doesn’t end when you start a search for a protest happening near you, ask for the best Black-owned businesses, or even about whether you need a lawyer when speaking with law enforcement. Technology experts say our personal data and the questions we […]
Posted inMaternal Health, Politics & Policy, Reproductive Health
Her Daughter Died After a Fatal Delay in Reproductive Care. Now, She’s Fighting for Justice.
Shanette Williams has become one of the most vocal advocates for restoring federal protections for abortions. When Shanette Williams speaks publicly, she holds the obituary of her 28-year-old daughter, Amber Nicole Thurman, in her hands. She says it gives her comfort and the strength to continue to tell the story of how a Georgia hospital […]
Posted inCulture, Politics & Policy, Public Safety, Rural Issues
Meet the Black Women Who Say Survivalism Is a Necessity, Not a Trend
Kelli McGuffey Pilkington hunts deer and squirrels, fishes whenever she can, stores jars of preserved food she cans herself — and keeps a holstered Smith and Wesson .38-caliber handgun under her T-shirt, just in case. Pilkington, 48, is a sturdily built 6-foot-tall Black biracial woman who lives in a 644-square-foot cabin on 18 acres of […]