BrandnewCircle Social Justice

11/01/2026

11/01/2026

Celebrating the Inimitable Style of COGIC Women

https://www.blacksouthernbelle.com/celebrating-the-inimitable-style-of-cogic-women/

11/01/2026

Truth

11/01/2026

My Third Great Grandparents Eloi Rosemond Broussard (b. 1824) and Josephine Celestine Leseé birthed a rich legacy of Louisiana Creoles.

11/01/2026

In 1921, when white banks in Atlanta would not lend to Black families, a group of Black business leaders opened their own. Citizens Trust Bank set up on Auburn Avenue and started doing what no one else would do for Black Atlanta. 🏛️

They financed homes, churches, and small businesses, and decades later they helped bankroll the civil rights movement itself. The money that built so much of Black Atlanta ran right through those doors. 🤎

More than a hundred years later, Citizens Trust is still Black-owned and still open. Did you grow up knowing this bank, or is this the first you are hearing of it? ✊🏽