Christina Louma has just one word to describe former President Donald Trump and his supporters’ claims of rampant noncitizen voting leading up to Election Day: “foolishness.” “I feel like they’re indirectly trying to intimidate us against voting,” Louma, a DeKalb County resident whose parents immigrated to the U.S. 25 years ago, told Capital B Atlanta. […]
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The Dawn of a New Trump Era Begins. What It Means for Black Atlantans in 2025.
The dread many Black people in Atlanta feel about Donald Trump’s triumph in the 2024 presidential election isn’t misplaced: He organized his reelection campaign against Vice President Kamala Harris around revenge — around how he and his allies can inflict the greatest amount of suffering on vulnerable groups and on those he considers enemies. Making […]
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A Trump Win, Against the Will of Black Voters
For the overwhelming majority of Black voters, a political nightmare is becoming a reality: Donald Trump secured enough Electoral College votes to win the 2024 presidential election, according to the Associated Press. With a win in Wisconsin, Trump cleared the 270 electoral votes needed to clinch the presidency. In the weeks leading up to Election […]
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Who Are Black Men in Atlanta Voting For?
All eyes are on Georgia today, as months of campaigning come to a close in the 2024 presidential election. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are each vying for the Oval Office, focusing on Black men in the Peach State as a powerful voter demographic that could tip the scales in a […]
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Georgians Are Voting Early at a Record Pace, but Democrats Have Concerns
State Rep. Carl Gilliard, D-Savannah, joined an emergency Zoom call with about 70 other Black Georgia faith leaders Monday night to discuss their concerns about the state’s latest early voting figures. Most prominent leaders of the state’s Black faith community have thrown their support behind Vice President Kamala Harris in her White House race against […]
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Local Gaza Supporters Call for Harris to Support Israeli Arms Embargo
Kafia Haile wants the U.S. government to issue an arms embargo against Israel to end what she calls its American taxpayer-funded mass killing of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. The 44-year-old Spelman College alum and her humanitarian allies in the Atlanta Multifaith Coalition for Palestine, which includes local Black Muslims, […]
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Will Black Men in Georgia Decide the 2024 Election?
Independent voter Azola Martin still hasn’t decided who he’s voting for in November, but he says he has reservations about Vice President Kamala Harris that have nothing to do with her gender. Martin says he primarily gets his news from social media, subscribes to some debunked myths about Harris, and may vote for former President […]
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Black Seniors for Harris Help Fuel Record Turnout as Early Voting Begins in Georgia
Ann Keith, 79, and William Keith, 84, didn’t encounter any problems casting ballots during the first day of early voting in Georgia on Tuesday. The married couple was among many Black folks who traveled to the C.T. Martin Natatorium and Recreation Center in Adamsville to hit the polls ahead of Election Day. “It was very […]
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How Georgia’s Black Voters Could Be Impacted by the Election Rules Decision
A Fulton County Superior Court judge is expected to decide before Election Day whether two of the state’s controversial new election rules should be allowed to stand ahead of the Nov. 5 presidential election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump — a case that has major implications for Black voters in Georgia, according to voting […]
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How Two Black Women’s ‘Preventable’ Deaths Put Abortion on the Ballot in Georgia
Amber Nicole Thurman and Candi Miller, two Black women who died after trying home abortions, aren’t the only ones who have suffered due to Georgia’s abortion restriction law, according to Monica Simpson, executive director of SisterSong, an Atlanta-based reproductive justice group. “There are so many other people … that have come up to me directly, […]