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Take a look at a campus map of the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), and you know right away that this is an unusual institution. SCAD’s more than 80 buildings in Savannah, many of them renovated pieces of…

Alana Shepherd comes every day to volunteer at the Shepherd Center, the private, not-for-profit hospital she and her husband Harold and son James founded 40 years ago in Atlanta to specialize in treatment and rehabilitation for people with spinal cord…

The Shepherd Center’s Alana Shepherd and SCAD President Paula Wallace are the 2015 recipients of the state’s highest honor.

Robert Balentine Chairman and CEO, Balentine, Atlanta Brandon Beach State Senator (R-21); CEO, Greater North Fulton Chamber, Alpharetta Freddy Bensch Big Kahuna, SweetWater Brewing Co., Atlanta Mohammad Bhuiyan President and CEO, Yunus Creative Lab Inc.; CEO, 2015 World Summit of…

Bill Bolling Founder & Executive Director Atlanta Community Food Bank Decatur Age: 66 Bill Bolling doesn't say he is retiring from the Atlanta Community Food Bank, the powerhouse nonprofit he founded in 1976 and where he has served as executive…

This December marks the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War’s surrender of Savannah, where in 1864 Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman ended his infamous March to the Sea. His scorched-earth tactics changed the history of warfare and are still studied…

Georgia’s literary heritage includes the likes of Margaret Mitchell, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O’Connor and even those who may not be thought of primarily as writers, but whose words have touched millions, like Martin Luther King Jr. These authors have inspired…