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PREPARING PROBLEM-SOLVING: Café Momentum Atlanta Intern Ben Johnson* prepares food in the kitchen before customers arrive. Chef Lee said one skill many of the interns come out of the program with is problem-solving skills, as they need to adapt to on-the-fly demands.
Rewriting the narrative: offering juvenile offenders second chances
Dylan Seinberg and Alex Brendle • November 6, 2025
The Prison Policy Initiative found that in state prisons, seven in 10 adults are arrested before the age of 19. According to Human Rights for Kids, as of 2023, over 30,000 people are incarcerated...
Georgia Rep. Derrick Jackson engages with protesters at the Feb. 5, 2025 50501 protest. Jackson announced his candidacy for the governor's race earlier this year.
Veteran Derrick Jackson enters governor’s race
November 5, 2025
RISING FEAR: Two ICE officers step out of a quiet Kirkwood home, leaving behind confusion, fear, and a shaken community. The incident at Hill's home reflects a larger reality playing out across Georgia, where immigration raids and sudden rule changes are upending daily life.
Fear shadows Georgia’s immigrant communities
November 3, 2025
Royce Mann, Midtown alum campaigns for Board of Education At-Large Seat 8.
Graduate Mann campaigns for school board
October 31, 2025
INCREASED INCOME: Atlanta Public Schools bus drivers, along with paraprofessionals and custodians, received 10% pay raises for this school year. Bus drive Jasmine Cooksey welcomes students onto school bus at the end of the the school day on Aug.15.
District gives ‘essential’ support staff 10% pay raise
October 29, 2025
Sports
Junior Journey Bryant sets up in triple threat, preparing to shoot a three point shot at practice on Thursday Nov. 30.
Sophomore Yaakov Thomas practices breaststroke in preparation for the APS Kickoff on Nov. 1.
Senior Sienna Burton practices her dive in preparation of the November 1st APS kickoff meet.
Freshman Annie Evans steps up to bat on Sept. 30. The Knights won 18-1.
Features
PAINTING HISTORY: The mural depicts the massacre of the Black community living in South Atlanta in 1906, an area once known as Brownsville.
Remembering the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre: Fabian Williams’ mural honors forgotten history
Mali Clark • November 7, 2025

Nearly 100 years after the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre, a mural depicting the riot by artist Fabian Williams was revealed in South Atlanta, across from Carver High...

The Advanced Tenor Bass sings "The Longest Time" by Billy Joel.
Chorus hosts 10th annual Friendship Festival
November 3, 2025
In recent years, dog shelters have reached their capacity. This has lead to consequences such as euthanasia.
Atlanta’s animal shelters’ population overflows
October 31, 2025
Vocal and bonding warm-ups are apart of the cast and crew of "Horse Girls" rehearsal schedule during the production class
Ad-Labs highlights student-directed plays
October 29, 2025
BONDING TOGETHER: East Atlanta Clay, a community pottery and art center, opens 2026. It is expected to be a large community hotspot for artists all over Atlanta.
New pottery studio aims to unite community
October 27, 2025
Opinion
REACHING COMPROMISE: Efforts need to be made to help Congress reach a compromise to pass the appropriations bill.
Trump disregards government shutdown, efforts are needed to facilitate Congress compromise
Reese Seinberg • November 6, 2025

Due to the government shutdown on Oct. 1 2025, close to one million American federal workers have been temporarily suspended from their duties. Additionally, as...

RISING TEMPERATURES: The increasing inequality of who gets to be cooled and who does not exacerbates existing disparities across the nation, continuing to worsen with every passing season until broad action is taken to solve this issue. Yet, only a couple states have implemented change.
Heat crisis divides Americans, proves inequalities
October 29, 2025
MANUFACTURED CRISIS: Politicians abuse non-existent crime problems to push personal agendas, despite nationwide crime rates declining over the last several decades.
Fear of American crime feeds expensive myth
October 27, 2025
NEW TEST: The Enhanced ACT was designed to better align with the digital SAT, creating streamlined experience for tester. The new changes provide for a condensed test with less questions and less time.
Head to Head: Does the enhanced ACT format benefit students?
October 22, 2025
BRAINWASH: PragerU continues to influence the children of America through their educational programming, further fueling an agenda of censorship and forgetting the past.
Conservative media over-glorifies America’s history
October 20, 2025
News Briefs
Democrats gain ground nationwide in 2025 elections
November 5, 2025
No school for students Nov. 4
November 3, 2025
Early voting closes 10/31
October 31, 2025
Trending Stories
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RISING FEAR: Two ICE officers step out of a quiet Kirkwood home, leaving behind confusion, fear, and a shaken community. The incident at Hill's home reflects a larger reality playing out across Georgia, where immigration raids and sudden rule changes are upending daily life.

Fear shadows Georgia’s immigrant communities

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CONSUMER CRAZE: Fluffy dolls known as Labubus have taken over the internet, bringing about the next big consumerist trend that glamorizes frivolous spending and wasting money.

Labubu trend fuels consumerism, harms environment

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SCIENCE STUDY: University of Georgia Graduate students install thermal-based mass flow controllers in UGA laboratory facilities.

University of Georgia adds new public medical school

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SEAMLESS CITY: Centennial Yards, Atlanta's latest urban design initiative, aims to build mixed use and residential buildings over the historic Gulch, and to create a continuation of the city's downtown in the previously underutilized area.

Centennial Yards project builds over The Gulch, transforms city

Sports Briefs
Basketball looks to open season against North Atlanta
November 4, 2025
Boys and girls cross country advances to State
November 1, 2025
Football loses to Mays 41-6
October 25, 2025
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Multimedia
Junior Wang leads dance workshop for fellow students
Dylan Seinberg
Student Life Briefs
Monthly Food Distribution Oct. 27
October 24, 2025
“Frosted Cookies and Ekphrasis” Workshop Oct. 23
October 22, 2025
PSAT Day Oct. 23
October 20, 2025
Humans of Midtown
Madilyn Wachlin, senior
Junior Zeff smiles outside of debate practice.
Sophmore Roberts smiles before volleyball practice.
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