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PHOTOS: 2025 AJC Photos of the Year
AJC photographers captured the daily joys, losses, celebrations and protests across metro Atlanta and the state — including the funeral ceremony of President Jimmy Carter, UGA...
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Coca-Cola published its very first advertisement in The Atlanta Journal in 1886.
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In Atlanta, the 20th and 21st centuries have seen the rise of influential philanthropists and doers, including entrepreneurs and executives like Alonzo Herndon, Robert Woodruf
