Category: Black Vote

“NOBODY COULD REPLACE JOHN LEWIS,” WILLIAMS SAID. “HE PAVED THE WAY AND SHOWED ME THE WAY.” — KIRSTEN WEST SAVALI, ESSENCE Nikema Williams, state senator of Georgia’s 39th district, has defeated Republican Angela Stanton-King to fill the congressional seat of Rep. John Lewis, who passed away from pancreatic cancer in July. Williams, who won a resounding […]

With voting rights under attack, activists like Stacey Abrams and LaTosha Brown are continuing the struggle that leaders like Fannie Lou Hamer helped ignite. — KEISHA N. BLAIN, THE NATION Black women are one of the most powerful voting blocs in the nation. Although they occupy a marginalized position in American society—shouldering multiple and intersecting […]

— WSB-TV NEWS STAFF COBB COUNTY, Ga. — There’s a new sheriff in town. Well, in three counties to be more specific. Georgia has elected three men who are the first Black sheriffs in the history of their counties. Craig Owens has declared victory over Sheriff Neil Warren in Cobb County and Keybo Taylor beat out […]

Here’s where Georgia and other swing states stand as the votes roll in. — KATHLEEN WALSH, INSTYLE Even after the 2018 gubernatorial race that Stacey Abrams narrowly lost (if we’re being especially liberal with the word “lost”), it was hard to believe that Georgia, conventionally understood at least for my entire lifetime to be a […]

— MICHAEL HARRIOT, THE ROOT I look at it and cuss. There are few human beings on the planet who enjoy receiving an injection with a needle. My sister—a grown-ass-woman who pushed babies out of her body and once fought a mugger who was armed with a kitchen knife — still gets anxiety attacks every time a […]

Most Black men supported Biden, but overall, Democrats have been losing Black male support since 2008, according to NBC exit poll data. — MARA OSTFELD and MICHELLE GARCIA, NBC NEWS Support for the Democratic presidential candidate reached a new low among Black men this year, according to the NBC News poll of early and Election Day […]

“I remember when I couldn’t vote,” Dr. Robert H. Smith Sr. said. — MARIYA MOSELEY, ABC NEWS A 99-year-old man who was born the son of a sharecropper on a plantation is making sure his voice is being heard in this year’s election – and sending an important reminder of just how crucial it is to exercise […]

— MICHAEL HARRIOT, THE ROOT America is not a “civilized country.” While, compared to most countries, we have an abundance of toilets, street lights and wifi hotspots, the so-called “United” States also boasts more intentional homicides, gun violence and is more politically unstable than most of the developed world (or as one slightly jaundiced geopolitical expert calls them— the “shithole countries”). […]

The Rev. Otis Moss III is the senior pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. He is the executive producer and writer of “Otis’ Dream,” a film about his grandfather’s attempt to vote in 1946. — OTIS MOSS III, THE WASHINGTON POST Many Americans see this year’s election as unprecedented. For my family, […]