Atlanta loves to repeat its favorite line, a city too busy to hate. But these places know otherwise.
There are streets in Atlanta where memory lies low, beneath the asphalt, whispering like wind through brick. If you walk slowly enough, you’ll hear it: not history, but instruction. Not nostalgia, but reckoning.
Begin here. Georgia Avenue. Capitol View Avenue. Ormonde Street. This is Summerhill, but it is also Peoplestown. It is also Mechanicsville. They sit together like braided memory, Black, old, and enduring…