Athens is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It has been a place of human settlement for at least ...

July 26, 2004 -- The city of Athens is glowing with fresh paint and crowded with shining limousines as Greece prepares to host the 2004 Olympic Games. Western culture owes a lot to the Greeks -- they ...

On the eve of the Peloponnesian War in 432 BC, the wise king of Sparta, Archidamus, was summoned to address a clash between the Corinthians and Athenians. Corinth, an ally of Sparta, warned that ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. The Emancipation Proclamation was issued on Jan. 1, 1863, but enslaved people all ...

Kimberly Davis can trace her family's roots in Athens back four generations. Her lineage is a point of pride. But she knows not everybody feels that way. "Let's be honest: A lot of people don't want ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. Pride Month in Athens today consists of a parade, drink specials, several locations ...

ATHENS, Ala. (WAFF) - In the early 1900s Old Easy Street in Athens was home to Black-owned businesses. The link to the past is no longer there. Old Easy Street in Athens had a series of Black-owned ...

"The Tangible Past in Athens, Georgia" is a big book in more ways than one. It's big in size - 635 oversized pages filled with 18 essays by 13 authors; some 700 photographs both modern and historic; ...

In 1982, Grace Elizabeth Hale arrived at her freshman dorm at the University of Georgia with a sailor dress and an add-a-bead necklace, and promptly went out for sorority rush. Five years later, she ...