Stacey Abrams
Stacey Abrams Calls Out Misogynoir In MSNBC Interview
Stacey Abrams is calling out race and gender as reasons for the high disapproval for Vice President Kamala Harris in an MSNBC interview. The Fair Fight organizer also spoke about the fight for voting rights for Georgia citizens.
Stacey Abrams Announces 2022 Run for Governor of Georgia
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: ERIC BARADAT / Getty Stacey Abrams is officially back in the political race. According to her announcement last week, Abrams formally announced her second candidacy for governor of Georgia after previously being cheated out of the position by current Governor, Brian Kemp, in 2018. Although she wasn’t on the ballot for 2020, it’s no secret that her efforts through her voter’s rights organization, Fair Fight, Abrams not only helped build the Democratic party presence in the state, leading to victories for Joe Biden and Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock— resulting in united and uncontested support from her party. While many are anticipating a historic victory for Abrams, it’s the possibility of the state making history with all four major part...
Stacey Abrams Has Been Nominated For A Nobel Peace Prize
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: 52nd NAACP Image Awards/BET / Getty One of our most tenacious political activists is getting respect put on her name like never before. Stacey Abrams has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. As spotted on Reuters the Democratic Party politician has been recommended for the prestigious honor. Her work specifically with voting rights in her home state of Georgia has garnered the nod. In 2020 she fought vigorously against local legislation that in essence disproportionately limited access to voting to Black voters because they tend to live in larger counties and they tend to live in higher population communities. Her work resulted in flipping Georgia into a Blue state. Lars Haltbrekken, a Socialist Party member of Norway’s parliament, likened her commitme...
The Twitterverse Thanks Stacey Abrams For Turning Georgia Into A Blue State
Source: Jessica McGowan / Getty Last night Georgia held what many consider the most important senate runoff vote in U.S. history and now that it looks like democrats will retake control of the Senate, Americans took to Twitter to give Stacey Abrams her flowers for making the impossible happen. According to Raw Story, the Twitterverse erupted with joy and gratitude for Abrams after it began to seem clear that democratic senate candidates Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff were Washington bound as they took the leads over their republican opponents, Sen. Kelly Loeffler amd Sen. David Purdue. Long thought to be a deep red state, Stacy Abrams spent the last few years convincing people to register to vote and got them to the poles after she herself was robbed of the Governorship in Atlant...
You Got Our Vote: Stacey Abrams Rumored To Be Eyeing 2022 Georgia Governor Race
Source: The Washington Post / Getty It’s no secret that Black women have been showing up and showing out in the political sphere, but no one has answered the call better than Stacey Abrams and after single-handedly helping to flip Georgia blue, it appears she’s ready to put her hat back in the Governor’s race. According to published reports, after her devastating and unfair loss to Republican Gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp, Stacey Abrams is rumored to be eyeing the race again for the upcoming 2022 race. “Stacey Abrams intends to run for governor again,” Wendy Davis, a Democratic National Committee member who is on the executive committee of the Georgia Democratic Party, told the Daily Beast. “I think that is a secret to no one.” Due to the loss being announced amid ac...
Stacey Abrams Throws A Well-Timed Jab At Outgoing President Donald Trump
Source: The Washington Post / Getty Stacey Abrams is emerging as a star within the Democratic Party, this after she and other organizers have been credited with delivering Georgia for President-Elect Joe Biden. The former gubernatorial candidate shared some of her thoughts about flipping the state blue while also getting in a sharp jab towards outgoing President Donald Trump. Abrams was a guest on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and the interview segment opened with host Stephen Colbert acknowledging Abrams’ efforts on the ground in Georgia related to getting out the vote. In the socially-distance virtual chat, Abrams said that she gave herself a brief moment to celebrate but put the focus back on flipping the state’s Senate seats. “I had about 17 minutes Saturday afternoon, I’m good,” ...
Late Civil Rights Icon John Lewis’s Former County Divinely Flips Georgia Blue
Source: Jessica McGowan / Getty Former House Representative John Lewis may have passed, but it’s clear his spirit lives on after his former county helped deal a devastating blow to current sitting President, Donald Trump‘s campaign. On Friday (Nov 6) the civil rights icon’s county in Georgia tipped Democratic nominee Joe Biden into the lead in the state as mail-in ballots, continued to be counted from the area. As previously reported, at about 4:30 a.m. on Friday, a release of ballots counted in Clayton County gave Biden a lead of 917 votes in the Southern state, pushing his lead out to 1,096 votes after another batch of ballot results came in at about 6 a.m. As the votes continued to be counted from surrounding counties including Fulton, DeKalb, and Chatham, helped boost Biden ahead of Tr...
