Is Atlanta’s reputation as a Black Mecca real or simply good marketing? Or both? In this chapter: how the long legacy of Black leadership transformed Atlanta into a world-class city, and how hip-hop has been a voice for those left behind.

Featured Guests: Historian and professor Dr. Maurice Hobson, Atlanta Influences Everything co-founder Bem Joiner, Activist and community organizer Nsé Ufot, Visual artist Marryam Moma, Founder and Chief Equity Officer for Partnership for Southern Equity, Nathaniel Smith, Author and journalist Charles Blow, Executive Director of Housing Justice League, Alison Johnson, Executive Director of Georgia Coalition for the People's Agenda, Helen Butler, and Music and culture reporter Christina Lee.

Is Atlanta&rsquo;s reputation as a Black Mecca real or simply good marketing? Or both? In this chapter: how the long legacy of Black leadership transformed Atlanta into a world-class city, and how hip-hop has been a voice for those left behind.
Featured Guests: Historian and professor Dr. Maurice Hobson, Atlanta Influences Everything co-founder Bem Joiner, Activist and community organizer Ns&eacute; Ufot, Visual artist Marryam Moma, Founder and Chief Equity Officer for Partnership for Southern Equity, Nathaniel Smith, Author and journalist Charles Blow, Executive Director of Housing Justice League, Alison Johnson, Executive Director of Georgia Coalition for the People's Agenda, Helen Butler, and Music and culture reporter Christina Lee.

What is democracy for?Reimagining Democracy for a Good Life takes up that question by turning to Atlanta—a city shaped by Black leadership and becoming ever more multiracial—where democracy is practiced in real time: debated, challenged, and remade. Hosted by PolicyLink Founder in Residence Angela Glover Blackwell, in conversation with voices rooted in Atlanta for generations and those newly arrived, this 6-part audio documentary explores radical imagination and innovative action, race and place, power and policy, and the city’s evolving relationship with Georgia. 

At a time when faith in democracy feels fragile, Reimagining Democracy for a Good Life lifts up lived experiences and people-centered governance to demonstrate that a thriving, multiracial democracy in service of human flourishing, claimed by We the People, remains possible—and necessary for a good life for everyone

What is democracy for? Reimagining Democracy for a Good Life takes up that question by turning to Atlanta&mdash;a city shaped by Black leadership and becoming ever more multiracial&mdash;where democracy is practiced in real time: debated, challenged, and remade. Hosted by PolicyLink Founder in Residence Angela Glover Blackwell, in conversation with voices rooted in Atlanta for generations and those newly arrived, this 6-part audio documentary explores radical imagination and innovative action, race and place, power and policy, and the city&rsquo;s evolving relationship with Georgia.&nbsp;
At a time when faith in democracy feels fragile, Reimagining Democracy for a Good Life lifts up lived experiences and people-centered governance to demonstrate that a thriving, multiracial democracy in service of human flourishing, claimed by We the People, remains possible&mdash;and necessary for a good life for everyone