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 ...

Oct. 29—On Jan. 4, 2023, the Athens News Courier began its 150th volume — the number that correlates to the number of years a newspaper has published. Typically a newspaper's volume number would ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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; ...

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 ...

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 ...