Steve Goss

Many of Atlanta's neighborhoods underwent a racial 'sea change' in the decades following World War Two. 

The response and reaction by neighborhood churches to that transition is recounted in an honors thesis by Emory University student Preston Hogue entitled, "The Ties That Bind:  White Church Flight in Atlanta from 1955 to 1985" [excerpt below].

About four years ago, Fayetteville, Georgia elementary school students, Carter--age 8 and a half, and sister Olivia, age 7--founded a non-profit organization devoted to conservation and saving endangered animals. 

"One More Generation.org" began by adopting cheetahs in South Africa, a species close to extinction.  Since then, their environmental activism has spread worldwide.

  The evolution of the photographic image and self-image of African-Americans is chronicled in a new book co-authored by New York University Professor Dr. Deborah Willis, and  University of Massachusetts Assistant Professor Dr. Barbara Krauthamer, entitled "Envisioning Emancipation--Black Americans and the End of Slavery" (Temple University Press, 2013).  

Here, Dr. Willis talks with WABE's Steve Goss.

  Major League baseball as it was played and managed in the 1940's was vastly different than the game we know today.  

Tomorrow is April 6.  If we were to turn Georgia's clock back 77 years to this date in 1936, we'd be witness to massive destruction visited upon Gainesville from tornadoes spawned by a storm system that had swept across the South.  

Georgia State University Associate Professor of History Dr. Clifford Kuhn revisits the tragic event with WABE's Steve Goss.

Brendan O'Connell is a contemporary artist who has achieved commercial and critical success painting scenes inside Walmart stores.  

The former Tucker, Georgia resident chose painting as his life's devotion during several years spent in Europe following his graduation from Emory University.

Why he has chosen Walmart as his muse, is something he shared with WABE's Steve Goss.

  The Atlanta Braves' 2012 season certainly ended better than the historic collapse of the year before, but still not what long-time Braves fans have come to expect.

With the 2013 season to begin on Monday, April 1, at Turner Field, WABE's Steve Goss rang up Fletcher Proctor, the Braves beat writer with Score Atlanta to get his take on the hometown team's prospects for the season ahead.

Books for Africa began collecting and shipping school books to nations in Africa from a warehouse in St. Paul, Minnesota 25 years ago.  

Now with a warehouse in Smyrna, Georgia, BFA is the world's largest shipper of donated text and library books to the African continent.

Here, Brad Mattson, Development and Operations officer with the non-profit, talks with WABE's Steve Goss.

  Beginning this weekend, and running through March 24th, the Atlanta Preservation Center is presenting its 10th annual "Phoenix Flies"--a celebration of Atlanta's living landmarks.

Boyd Coons, executive director of the Atlanta Preservation Center, and Carolyn Stine McLaughlin, events coordinator with the APC, join WABE's Steve Goss for a discussion of what lies ahead for Atlanta's past.