Mt. Olivet Missionary Baptist Church in Rockmart.
Photographer: Kendrick Brinson/BloombergSociety
There’s a New Battleground Game of Wealth and Race in Georgia
Paulding County, dubbed one of the best places to be Black in America, hints at some of the economic, cultural and political changes that the future might hold.
Ask around Confederate Avenue, an hour west of Atlanta, and people will tell you that life is pretty good here.
Jobs are plentiful. Schools are decent. Crime is low. People are pouring into this stretch of Georgia to chase a new Southern version of the American Dream.