For many years running, Atlanta is the number one tourism destination for African Americans and African Americans in the metro area number about one million.

The a 470 phone area code is overlaid over the same area area codes 770 and 404 in this fast-growing metro area.

Atlanta has become the South's premier center of communications, transportation, media, manufacturing, distribution, technical research, and it is a strong runner-up in recorded music and banking. Over 400 Fortune-500 companies have major divisions in Atlanta.

Although Metro Atlanta has about 4.3 million residents, its hard to tell so many people live here because the metro area has the least density of any major American metro area (spread over 6,126 miles).

Atlanta is still one of top places to relocate a business.

Atlanta is highly regarded as one of the best places for people of color to climb the corporate ladder.

Corporate headquarters include Coca Cola, BellSouth, Delta Air Lines, CNN/TBS, Georgia Pacific, Home Depot and United Parcel Service.

With the 1996 Olympics as a catalyst, Atlanta became the 2nd best-wired city in America.

While some cities celebrate their 1st Black mayor, Atlanta celebrates its 4th and each predecessor has a track record for good fiscal management.

Africans Americans residents born here or made their mark here.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Pastor, civil rights activist, SCLC founder, Nobel Prize winner

Coretta Scott King
Founder of Center for Non-violent Social Change

Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy
Pastor, civil rights activist

Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr.
Pastor and father of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Rev. William Holmes Borders
Famous pastor and leader of the Atlanta Civil Rights Movement

Hosea Williams
Dynamic Civil rights activist

John Wesley Dobbs
>Godfather of Black Business in Atlanta

Dr. Johnetta Cole
Former president of Spelman College

Camille Cosby
Spelman alum & philanthropist

Shirley Franklin
First Female mayor of Atlanta

Usher Raymond
Neo-Soul & Hip-Hop star

Outkast
>Multi-platinum and award-winning Hip-Hop group

Bernard Bronner
Founder of Upscale magazine and Bronner Hair care products

Herman J. Russel
Nation's largest Black builder

Alonzo Herndon
Founder of Atlanta Life Insurance

Henry A. Rucker
Built Atlanta's first office building for African Americans

Hank Aaron
One of the greatest all-around baseball players

Evander Holyfield
Champion boxer

Antonio "L.A." Reid and Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds
Singer, composer, producers and founders of LaFace Records

Maynard Jackson
Atlanta's 1st black mayor played a huge role in creating the image of Atlanta as a Black Mecca

Rev. Andrew Young
US Ambassador, 2nd mayor, pastor

William Campbell
3rd black mayor, defender of Affirmative Action

Dr. Benjamin Mays
Former president of Morehouse college

Dr. Howard Thurman
Former Morehouse teacher, renown theologian

Rev. Creflo Dollar
Pastor, TV evangelist