Welcome to Leaders & Legends!

Gwinnett Magazine’s historic kickoff of the Leaders & Legends series begins. Sit back and strap in for some great reads! All year long, you’ll enjoy fascinating stories of success from those who...

Georgia Time Recorder Celebrates 40 Years!

Georgia Time Recorder (dba GTR Business Systems), a family-owned business since 1982, is celebrating 40 years of serving Gwinnett County, Metro Atlanta and the Southeast. The business started in the time clock...

Celebrating Black History Month: Black History in Gwinnett

From emancipation to desegregation to the Civil Rights Movement – giving rise to leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. – it’s impossible to talk American Black history without understanding its significance in...

Leaders & Legends: Melvin Everson

There’s an old, sepia-toned photo hanging behind the desk of Melvin Everson. In it, a couple stand outdoors, shoulder to shoulder. The man sports a suit, tie and slightly tipped fedora. He...

Leaders & Legends: J. Alvin Wilbanks

It’s winter 1986. Snow – that rarest of southern delights and freeway frustration – falls in central Gwinnett County. The young, founding president of Gwinnett Technical College navigates the rapidly freezing roads....

Leaders & Legends: Beauty Baldwin

It’s the mid-50s in middle Georgia. The sun beats down on Beauty Poole as she drags a cotton sack from one end of a sharecropping field to the...

3 Underrated Kitchen Essentials to Elevate Your Cooking!

Written by Joseph Holevinski, Converge multimedia journalism intern and Senior at Gwinnett School of Math, Science & Technology (GSMST) For many, cooking in the...

Why We Still Need Feminism: From the Lens of a High School Girl

Written by Jaiden Arada, Converge multimedia journalism intern and Senior at Cherokee Bluff High School As a person in society, I am treated a...

The Media: An Incomplete Puzzle

Written by Micah Xu, Converge multimedia journalism intern and Junior at Gwinnett School of Math, Science & Technology (GSMST) The news, the press, the...

Ryan Freels: Storyteller, Tech Guy, Dungeon Master, Friend

Written by Micah Xu, Converge multimedia journalism intern and Junior at Gwinnett School of Math, Science & Technology (GSMST) Meet Ryan Freels, the man...