Two months after mass layoffs left the organization’s future in question, Stacey Abrams-founded Fair Fight Action is launching a new season of a digital series it first created in the 2020 heyday of Fair Fight’s political organizing.
The fourth season of Fair Fight’s Civics For The Culture debuted over the weekend during a panel at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. This season targets Gen Z voters on the issue of reproductive rights, which many see as a galvanizing issue for younger and left-leaning voters in the post-Row v. Wade era. The show was co-produced with Free & Just, a nonprofit organization with a mission “to stop attacks on reproductive freedom and rights.”
“The fight to protect our freedom to vote is fundamentally connected to our reproductive freedom,” said Abrams, a two-time Democratic nominee for Georgia governor and Fair Fight’s former board chair, in a statement. “Anti-choice lawmakers wasted no time pushing bills that limit abortion, contraception, and voting rights, with the clear intent to undermine our ability to hold them accountable at the ballot box.”
In January, Fair Fight announced it was shedding 75% of its staff and would reorganize its voting rights, media, fundraising, and grassroots organizing efforts. It was among many organizations that brought in millions of dollars in funding in 2020 as donors supported Black-focused social justice organizations, only to later see that funding dwindle as news coverage and politicians leaned away from Black issues.
The organization has re-hired Lauren Groh-Wargo, its first executive director, to the same position. Salena Jegede, Fair Fight’s current board chair, told Capital B last month that the organization was reorganizing to ensure that it could continue to promote voting rights and political engagement.
