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Racially segregated proms and the approach of another prom season

Posted on March 28, 2011 by chereefranco

**I wrote this story in April of 2008, as part of my requirements to fulfill my journalism degree at Columbia University. I didn’t want to let it quietly hibernate on my laptop through another prom season, so I’m posting it … Continue reading →

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Atlanta’s Youngblood Gallery, Part 3

Posted on September 18, 2010 by chereefranco

This is the final installation of my (incredibly frank–thanks ladies!) interview with Young Blood owners Maggie White and Kelly Teasley. Parts 1 and 2 are here and here. In part 3, we learn about Young Blood’s community events, how the … Continue reading →

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Atlanta’s Young Blood Gallery, part 2

Posted on August 30, 2010 by chereefranco

This is the second part of my interview with owners of Atlanta’s Young Blood Gallery, Kelly Teasley and Maggie White. With backgrounds in art and social work, they began Young Blood as a D.I.Y. gallery in their living room in … Continue reading →

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Atlanta’s Young Blood Gallery

Posted on August 27, 2010 by chereefranco

On one of my recent trips to Atlanta, I had a frank conversation with Kelly Teasley and Maggie White, the co-proprietors of (the charming, fantastic, fairy-dust magical) Young Blood Gallery and Boutique, as featured in the book and doc Handmade … Continue reading →

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Living Walls Conference: Debate Continues

Posted on August 27, 2010 by chereefranco

In the comments section of the Burnaway article… There’s this, from MTM: “My disappointment with the City is not in the lack of public work or ’street art’ but in the lack of discourse about it especially after this very … Continue reading →

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Racially segregated proms and the approach of another prom season

Atlanta’s Youngblood Gallery, Part 3

Atlanta’s Young Blood Gallery, part 2

Atlanta’s Young Blood Gallery

Living Walls Conference: Debate Continues

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