Watch this amazing photographic retrospective ‘Atlanta: Darker Than Blue’

?Here’s a deep dive to keep you occupied through the holidays. Atlanta: Darker Than Blue is a fascinating history of the city presented by Blvck Vrchives. A sobering decades-long look at black life in the black mecca, it covers the trials, tragedy, and triumphs. It’s easily the most compelling photographic retrospective of Atlanta that I have ever seen. 
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?Set to the music of Curtis Mayfield’s “We the People Who Are Darker Than Blue,” the video component (embedded below) starts with civil rights-era Atlanta and the funeral of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., then travels through the rise of Mayor Maynard Jackson, the decimation of the Atlanta Child Murders, the destitute condition of public housing in the ’70s/’80s; to the hip-hop era, Freaknik, and Dre’s proclamation giving rise to the South. 
??embed-1The site features more than 100 photographs spanning from the ’60s through the Olympic-era gentrification of the ’90s. The founder of Blvck Vrchives, Renata Cherlise, calls it “a curated visual journey through history.” She obtained permission from the Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center to feature the photographs throughout the narrative. The accompanying introduction is written by Khalfani Lawson and the historical narrative continues with excerpts from a range of such sources as theblackpast.org, NPR, and the Chicago Tribune’s review of James Baldwin’s 1985 book on the case of Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered Children, The Evidence of Things Not Seen. 
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?Do yourself a favor and dig into the whole thing at Blvck Vrchives.