More than seven months will have passed by the time Atlanta students return to in-person schooling. That long of a break, educational experts told GPB News, may further exacerbate the inequality gap between Black and Latino students and their white peers.

Click here to learn more about why educational experts are concerned about the lack of in-person learning contributing to the growing inequality gap in Atlanta schools here.

Georgia Tech student, Kyra Halbert-Elliot volunteered to help with COVID-19 testing while she was on summer break in Houston. Later she became sick and tested positive for the coronavirus.

Click here to read more about her experience with the coronavirus and her advice to other college students as they prepare to go back to classes this fall.

Georgia State punter and placekick Michael Hayes tested positive for COVID-19 after taking trips to Myrtle Beach and Folly Beach while he was home in South Carolina.

Click here to learn more about Hayes’ expereince after testing positive for the coronavirus and his advice to other college students during the pandemic.

With the number of COVID-19 cases increasing in Georgia, a global company with ties to Alpharetta is helping blood centers collect and distribute the blood of coronavirus survivors to try and save as many lives as possible.

Click here to learn how Biolog-id is using convalescent blood plasma to help treat the COVID-19 virus.

Google is awarding Morehouse School of Medicine $1 million to study why the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected minority communities.

Click here to learn how Morehouse plans to use the grant to study the racial impact of the pandemic.

Atlanta police Officer Maximilian Brewer is recovering at Grady Memorial Hospital after being struck by an ATV late Saturday night. Brewer was struck down while helping with traffic control in the downtown Atlanta area during the second night of protesting after the controversial arrest and death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25.

Click here to learn more about the status of Brewer’s recovery after the incident.

Herschel Walker is one of two former Georgia Bulldogs who made headlines this week for comments they made related to race relations in the U.S.

Click here to see what the Hiseman Trophy and national champion winning running back had to say about reactions he’s seen from protesters, politicians, and other figures since death of George Floyd and the controversial video of his arrest went viral.

Contrary to the remarks made by Atlanta police chief Erika Shields and GBI director Vic Reynolds about the number of people who participated in violent protests over the weekend being from outside Atlanta or the state of Georgia. Arrest data from the Atlanta Police Department and the GBI show a majority of the people who were arrested during the protest and later charged live in the metro Atlanta area.

Click here to learn more about what the data from the Atlanta police and GBI revealed about the protesters.

After more than a week of protests following the death of George Floyd, former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, and other officials in the law enforcement community continue to share their thoughts, feedback, and ideas on how to move forward.

Click here to see what they said about Floyd, the role of police in American society, and the protests against racial injustice and police brutality in the U.S.

82 of the protesters who were arrested during the first weekend of protests against racial injustice and police brutality in Atlanta were booked in Fulton County jail. As some of the protests became violent leaders some local leaders suggested that most of the people causing the violence were from outside the state of Georgia.

Click here to learn what data from the people booked in Fulton County reveals about how many of the violent protestors came from outside of Georgia.