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Zahraw and Aatika were born in Georgia and have spent their whole lives there. Their father, an engineer from Pakistan, emigrated to the United States in the 1980s,…

When Brittany saw the portrait we had made together, she winced. “I look so mean,” she said. We were standing in her office at the University of West…

To be Ms. Helen in 2019, or any one of her friends from the Howard Warner High School Class of ’54, is to carry the memory in every…

Once a thriving cotton-mill town, Grantville sits about ten miles south of Newnan at the southern edge of Coweta County. No industry replaced the cotton mill when it…

Mirra was about 15 when she came to the conclusion that if she wanted her life to be a success, she would have to leave Newnan. She’d been…

It was a sunny Saturday in April of 2018, and 700 law-enforcement officers in full riot gear were assembled in downtown Newnan. Members of the National Socialist Movement…

In the heart of downtown Newnan, near the municipal park and the Presbyterian Church, stands the Super Latino market. The shop serves as a center for the Hispanic…

William cuts an almost mythic figure in Newnan: a courtly presence, spoken of by townspeople with a kind of reverence. The son of a mill owner, he grew…

When Kayla’s first child was born, in 2013, she wanted a professional portrait made of the baby. But the photographer she called was charging $375, beyond what she…

Gospel music was filling the air in the largest black church in Coweta County when I first saw Rufus. I was with a friend who’d invited me to…

One evening in early spring I was driving around the eastern edge of Newnan, where the road dips and turns away from the big-box stores and housing developments,…

I met Coleman at a dinner at his parents’ home, on my first “exploratory visit” to Newnan. Though we’d had many conversations by phone and email, it was…