Students at Emory University set up a Gaza solidarity encampment on April 25, 2024.

Video Emory’s Gaza solidarity encampment: one year after the police raid

Around 7:30 a.m. on April 25, 2024, students at Emory University set up a Gaza Solidarity encampment. Less than three hours later, multiple police forces raided the encampment.

Immigrant rights activists protest ICE detentions in front of the agency's field office in Atlanta
Immigrants’ rights activists protest ICE detention and discrimination outside Atlanta field office

Protesters chanted and spoke out amid escalating government detainments and deportations, while also cheering and singing in favor of featured speakers’ vision of abolition.

The Deeper Than Visibility Summit sign inside Atlanta City Hall marks the city's celebration of Trans Day of Visibility.
Atlanta’s trans community demands safety on International Transgender Day of Visibility
ACPC welcomes new team members!

Please join us in welcoming In-House Legal Counsel Samantha Hamilton, Operations Director Jarifa Purna and Managing Editor Karina Teichert!

ICE used database terminations to pressure international students to “self-deport,” attorney claims
A rectangular sign for Atlanta's Policing Alternatives and Diversion Initiative (PAD Atlanta) stands outside the building the organization uses for Care Navigation.
A look inside PAD, Atlanta’s alternative approach to public safety

Take a look inside Atlanta's Policing Alternatives and Diversion Initiative (PAD), a community safety organization that provides an alternative approach to policing and incarceration.

A group of protesters make their way toward the 2022 Confederate Memorial Day rally at Stone Mountain Park in Stone Mountain, Georgia.
Stone Mountain braces for neo-confederate rally
Keynote panelists Savannah Paterson (left) and Umaymah Mohammad (center) discuss the repression of protests during the Imaginary Crimes Tour on April 4 in Atlanta. (John Arthur Brown)
Imaginary Crimes Tour: Stop Cop City movement seeks to build national solidarity against police militarization
A remembrance table at the Mourning Our Losses event to memorialize those who died of COVID-19 while in Georgia prisons.
Mourning Our Losses: A night of remembrance and resistance at South Bend Park
Image of the front facade of the Georgia State Capitol, known as the Gold Dome. The camera is facing the facade from a lower angle with the capitol steps in the bottom of the frame. Behind the gold dome, a blue sky with very light clouds is visible.
Under the Gold Dome: 2025 legislative session wraps up
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