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Millennial Georgians Get Their Obama Moment With Stacey Abrams
Stacey Abrams’ campaign bus was running forty minutes late. But the anticipation for her arrival at Savannah State University seemed to intensify with each passing minute. Hundreds of people had settled into lawn chairs or found a spot on the ground around the gazebo in the center of campus Tuesday night. The candidate’s advance team…
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Actually, No One Knows Anything About Voter Suppression in Georgia
We really need to stop pushing this narrative that Georgia is trying to prevent 107,000 people from voting. Sure, Republican Brian Kemp is Georgia’s secretary of state and is currently running against Democrat Stacey Abrams, who, if elected would become the first black governor is the history of the United States. And, yes, as the…
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Neither Voter Suppression Nor Being Called 'Coon' and the N-Word Will Stop Black Georgia From Voting
Waynesboro, Georgia—Sarah Jenkins has long had to deal with simmering community tensions. She owns a small business in a white part of town that caters to senior citizens and people with mental disabilities, an arrangement many of her neighbors frown upon. But since “Ms. Jenkins,” as folks like to call her, became a big supporter…
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Black Senior Citizens in Georgia Ordered Off Bus Taking Them to Vote
On Monday, the first day of in-person early voting in Georgia, dozens of black senior citizens were ordered off a bus taking them to a nearby polling station to cast their ballots. A county clerk for Jefferson County, Ga., had ordered a senior center to take about 40 of its residents—all of whom are black—off…
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Is That All You Got? Georgia Organizations Were Ready for Black Voter Purge by the GOP
“For YEARS I’ve been trying to get people to give a shit about ‘Exact Match,’ before the day after the voter-registration deadline,” says a Georgia Democratic campaign operative, who wished to remain anonymous. The exasperation in their voice is obvious. Exact Match is the gentrified name for Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp’s anti-black voting…
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Stacey Abrams Campaign: Supreme Vote-Suppressor Brian Kemp Needs to Resign as Georgia Secretary of State
As we barrel towards one of the most momentous elections in Georgia’s history, Democrat Stacey Abrams’ campaign is calling on Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp to resign following a report his office is cheating using a rigorous verification process to suppress the votes of thousands of African Americans. As reported by The Root, Kemp…
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The Wizard of Voter Suppression: Brian Kemp’s Long History of Making Black Votes Disappear
On Nov. 6, Democratic nominee Stacey Abrams could turn the nation’s political map inside out and become the first black female governor in U.S. history. The mathematics say its entirely possible. The voter enthusiasm is on her side. There’s only one problem: She’s running against one of the greatest suppressors of the black vote in…
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Eric Holder Wants All the Smoke: When They Go Low, We Kick Them
Former Attorney General Nat Turner Eric Holder is not your negro. During a recent campaign event for Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams—who is currently on a quest to become the first black woman governor in American history—Holder told those in attendance when Republicans “go low” Democrats should “kick them.” According to Holder, the suspected…
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‘Shoot Them on Sight’: Stacey Abrams’ Campaign Harassed by White Nationalists; Republican Brian Kemp and Georgia Media Say Nothing
Massive generalizations are usually the work of a lazy mind or someone with an ax to grind: all cops are white nationalists, all politicians are corrupt, all media is biased, etc. etc. We know all of these things aren’t true, at least not all of the time. Yes, academic studies show that black politicians aren’t…
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With Great Power Comes … Less Responsibility? How New DNC Rules Hurt a New Generation of Black Officials
With competitive candidates all over the country, the 2018 mid-term elections look like they will be a revolutionary moment for African Americans. Even the branding of this hidden black wave of candidates has been spectacular. Every flyer or story about gubernatorial candidates Andrew Gillum (Fla.), Ben Jealous (Md.) and Stacey Abrams (Ga.) looks like a…