First Baptist Church of Jonesboro (FBCJ) turns 200 this year—marking two centuries of growth from 14 people gathering on three acres of piney woods near what would later become Tara Boulevard to…
Community Spotlight
Stories of inspiring individuals, organizations, and everyday heroes shaping Clayton County.
Breaking Barriers in Historic Jonesboro Donya L. Sartor has made history as the first Black woman to qualify and run for mayor of Jonesboro, Georgia. Nestled just south of Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International…
In the early 1970s, as an underage teenager, I snuck into a San Francisco bar where Hot Tuna, featuring two members of the psychedelic rock group Jefferson Airplane, was playing traditional acoustic…
With college football season fast approaching there is no disguising Clayton County Police Department Deputy Chief in charge of the Field Operations Command Gina V. Hawkins’ allegiance to the Ohio State University.…
I AM A PROUD SOUTHERN WHITE guy raised in the segregated South where the men were all Clark Gable handsome and the women were as strong as Vivien Leigh and as kind as Olivia de Havilland.…
Arts Clayton has been here before—full rooms, busy calendars, kids rotating through classes, artists selling work off the walls, and families returning because the building felt like theirs. Founded in 1987, the…