Bradley Roberts

I'm an award-winning journalist living and working in Decatur, Georgia. I've worked for the past 4+ years as a content marketing strategist in the Atlanta metro. Over the past decade, I've told hundreds of stories for newspapers, nonprofits and b2b clients. In my spare time, I’m probably off somewhere training for my next marathon.

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United Way, local artist collaborate to help community in time of crisis

Artist Ronnie Land grew up in the wetlands of Jacksonville, Florida, but he said he gravitated toward Atlanta—there was something about its soul that he fell in love with. “I was coming up here and pulling pranks and doing pop-up shows in the mid-80s,” Ronnie, who professionally goes by “R.Land,” says. “I felt instantly connected with Atlanta. It’s the center of the region and a center of the world. It’s a cultural refugee center for anybody who wants to come here for opportunity.”

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United Way partners with faith-based organizations in communities for COVID testing, education

Rev. Bronson Woods was planning to send 35 people to Ethiopia on behalf of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta on March 1, 2020. That date sticks out to him for obvious reasons. During that trip, the team was honored at the Royal Palace by the first woman elected president of the country, Sahle-Work Zewde. But back home, news of the rapid spread of the coronavirus around the world forced massive shutdowns and self-imposed quarantines by local leaders to stem the spread of the disease COVID-19.

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2-1-1 agent uses personal experience to encourage callers daily

LaKeta’s phone rings, and she puts on her headset and adjusts her microphone before clicking on the screen of her monitor to answer. The woman on the other end tells LaKeta, a United Way of Greater Atlanta 2-1-1 Community Connection Specialist, she had been out of work because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The woman had gone to a doctor recently for a check-up. The doctor told her she had cancer. She was young and she didn’t know what to do next.