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‘This Election Is Too Important’: Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms on Fighting Trump and Endorsing Joe Biden
The Joe Biden campaign for president has been a spectacle to behold this year. On the one hand, if you wrote out Biden on paper, it would look something like this: seasoned older white man, executive experience, wingman for the first black president. You’d think he’s a shoo-in for the Democratic nomination in 2020. Yet,…
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Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Endorses Joe Biden for President
Keisha Lance Bottoms, mayor of what is arguably the blackest city in America, threw her support behind former Vice President Joe Biden on Friday, citing his experience and perceived ability to beat Donald Trump. Bottoms told the Associated Press, “For me, it was most important that we have a president who doesn’t have to walk…
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Grand Theft Airport: Republicans Are Trying to Snatch the Busiest Airport in America From Black Leadership
I love a good heist movie—Now You See Me, Dead Presidents, all of those Oceans movies. I can even enjoy really terrible heist movies like Widows and Takers. The key to a good heist story is the thieves have to kind of be the good guys and the crime has to make some kind of…
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Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms on Super Bowl Preparedness, Kamala Harris and Her Non-Misdemeanor Mac and Cheese
Last week, The Root caught up with Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms at the United States Conference of Mayors annual convention in Washington D.C. Mayor Bottoms shared her thoughts on the impact of the government shutdown; on Atlanta’s Superbowl preparedness; how the 2020 election runs through Georgia and why readers of The Root need to…
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Atlanta Decides Not to Impeach Mayor on Misdemeanor Macaroni Charges
After proudly becoming one of the largest metropolitan cities in the U.S. to be led by a black woman, Atlanta was rocked by scandal on Christmas Day when residents of the city recoiled in shock after learning that a black woman named Keisha made a pan of macaroni and cheese that looked like someone melted…
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Atlanta Mayor Sends Message to Trump That She Won’t Allow ICE Detainees to Be Housed in City’s Jails
On Wednesday, newly elected Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced that she is no longer allowing city jails to accept detainees from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. On the same day that the president signed an executive order that would stop the separation of children from their loved ones at the U.S. border, Bottoms signed…
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It’s Been 100 Days and Atlanta’s Still Got a Mayor Named Keisha
Once Donald Trump got into office (with fewer votes than Hillary Clinton) and threw the country into chaos, suddenly Americans started paying attention to elections. The pundits were obsessed with the Virginia gubernatorial elections, the resistance was all over the Jon Ossoff special election in Georgia, and everyone who had a teenage daughter cared about…
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The 10 Blackest Moments of 2017, Ranked
2017 has been a motherfucker of a year. Despite this fact, blackness has flourished. We’ve seen a resurgence of pride and excitement in blackness that is reminiscent of the Black Power movement of the ’60s. From #BlackGirlMagic to #BlackBoyJoy, Dead Mike from mythical rap group CB4 is outchea looking like a damn prophet as so…
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Atlanta’s Outgoing Mayor Kasim Reed Talks Elections, Black Power and Hurt Feelings
Last week, the city of Atlanta elected Keisha Lance Bottoms and continued its over-40-year streak of electing African-American mayors to lead the city. Bottoms’ defeat of Mary Norwood, a 65-year-old white woman who was suspected of being a Donald Trump-supporting Republican, elicited more hot takes than an NFL pregame show. Was this race about race?…
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That Was Close! 3 Things to Know About Atlanta’s Wild Mayoral Race
The next four years of leadership for Atlanta, one of the fastest-growing, wealthiest and culturally important cities in America, will likely stay in the hands of an African American, thanks to a nail-biting election Tuesday night. The race between Councilwomen Keisha Lance Bottoms and Mary Norwood was tighter than a pair of skinny jeans at…