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Our mission is to make sure Black communities are not simply informed about the decisions shaping our future, but equipped to help make those decisions. An informed community is a powerful community.

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Each story starts with the national record, then breaks it down to your state, county, city and address: how it affects you, who decides and who pays. Newest first.

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Proof of change: Wesley Chapel Road

What happened when Southwest DeKalb asked who decided?

Residents asked how care homes reached Wesley Chapel Road with no county vote. Within days the plan ended. Here is the record, in order.

Parents, alumni and homeowners around Southwest DeKalb High School did something this month that changed the record in a matter of days. They asked a plain question: how did a building project next to our school move forward without a public hearing, a county vote or a notice in the mail?

Inside: What was planned · How it reached the neighborhood without a vote · The sequence · Why Claratel says it ended the plan · Who pays · Still open · Who decides, from you up · What you can do this week · Where you live

Read the story › October 31, 2026 · 4 minute read

Mind the Money: Black Mental Health

Who gets mental health care in Black communities, and who decides the money?

Black youth suicide rose 29.4% in five years as the national rate fell. Your state's numbers, where care is short, and who decides the money.

Start with what the record shows is holding. From 2018 to 2022, 8.0 of every 100,000 Black Americans died by suicide each year. For all Americans it was 14.0. In the ten states with the most Black residents, the Black rate ran from 5.1 in New York to 8.7 in California, and in every one of them it was lower than the rate for all residents.

Inside: Where we stand · Where the care is short · Where the money comes from · Who decides · What you can do · Where you live

Read the story › October 30, 2026 · 5 minute read

About these figures

Every figure on this page shows the year it describes. Public agencies release their numbers on their own schedules, often a year or more after the work of counting is done. The Census Bureau, for example, publishes its five year community survey each December, and the national reading test is given every two years. That is why some figures are not from this year. SourceLine updates each one as soon as the agency publishes it.

For some counties and small towns, SourceLine has not found meeting records online. Where it has not, we add them as they become available. A page that says SourceLine hasn’t updated a record yet means exactly that.