Mainline Podcast

In this episode, Jess and Aja discuss Cop City and the #StopCopCity campaign in Atlanta through the lens of rape culture, expanding into other areas of local and state politics and their connection to the foundations of white supremacy, capitalism,…

This week we’re interrupting our standard schedule for a special episode as this story develops. In 2011, 178 Atlanta Public School teachers were investigated for purportedly changing student test scores. Twelve were brought to trial, all Black. Ten…

This week, Aja catches up with Athens City Council Commissioner Mariah Parker / rapper Linqua Franqa to discuss their new single “Wurk,” off their upcoming ‘Bellringer’ LP (via Ernest Jenning Record Co. in April). The two discuss the single, labor…

On this week’s edition of the Mainline News Hour, tune in to hear our conversation with the Southern Poverty Law Center’s unionizers. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is a non-profit explicitly dedicated to protecting the civil rights of the…

This week, Mainline reporter and editor Aja Arnold returns behind the back to present a special conversation with organizer Sunny of mutual aid effort Sol Underground, the self-described “Black-led autonomous anti-fascist anti-capitalist eco-system…

On today’s special episode of the Mainline News Hour with our Senior Music Editor Autumn James and Music Contributor Keron Robinson roll out our annual list of Mainline’s favorite Atlanta music tracks. Listen along as Keron and Autumn share about the…

What is voting without organizing? If you vote without demanding action from your elected officials – regardless of who wins – then what is the point of being a citizen of a democratic society?

Movements like Stop Cop City have taught us the…

2021 has been like no other. And yet it still seemed oddly familiar, almost like a strange case of deja vu. The pandemic, racism, and capitalism are all still wreaking havoc along with a few big name politicians. It’s all giving a hint of rinse and…

This special episode of the Mainline News Hour features our Senior Music Editor Autumn James and Music Contributor Keron Robinson. We’ll recap what Atlanta’s music scene brought us during a year that often made it difficult to squeeze into a tight…

On this week’s episode of the Mainline News Hour on 89.3FM S.M. Johnson jumps behind the mic with Britney Whaley, Senior Political Strategist with the Working Families Party. They discuss Atlanta’s municipal election results which ranged from the…