White voters casting ballots for former President Donald Trump helped Georgia set a new turnout record this year, eclipsing the mark set four years ago and helping him seal his reelection. Meanwhile, Black Georgia voters, who overwhelmingly support Democrats in most elections, were the only major racial demographic group who voted less in 2024 than […]
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Posted inHealth, Transportation
Patients Are Relying on Lyft, Uber to Travel Far Distances to Medical Care
This article was published by KFF Health News. When Lyft driver Tramaine Carr transports seniors and sick patients to hospitals in Atlanta, she feels like both a friend and a social worker. “When the ride is an hour or an hour and a half of mostly freeway driving, people tend to tell you what they’re […]
Posted inPolitics & Policy, State Politics
Nikema Williams Under Fire Following Trump Election Victory
Kamala Harris isn’t the only Black woman being scrutinized in the aftermath of Democrats’ latest devastating loss to Donald Trump. Many Georgia Democrats are calling for the resignation of their party’s state leader, U.S. Rep. Nikema Williams, arguing that voter turnout and election results across the state could have been better this election cycle if […]
Posted inClimate, Criminal Justice, Education, LGBTQ, Politics & Policy, Reproductive Health
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 […]
Posted inPolitics & Policy, Public Safety, Voting
Some Black Georgians Fear What Could Happen After the Polls Close
Ace Bennett-Fludd has bad memories of what happened last time Donald Trump lost an election, and fears a similar aftermath in Georgia if the latest White House race doesn’t go the former president’s way. “I would not want to hear another story about riots happening and people being hurt,” Bennett-Fludd, a married resident of Hapeville, […]
Posted inLocal Politics, Politics & Policy, State Politics
Here Are Results of Key Races for Black Voters in Atlanta
It’s Election Day in Georgia, where stakes and tensions are running high as voters across the state travel to the polls to decide their elected leadership. More than half (55.5%) of Georgia’s registered voters already cast ballots during the state’s record-breaking early voting period, which ended on Friday. That includes more than 26% of Black […]
Posted inCriminal Justice, Politics & Policy
How Formerly Incarcerated Georgians Are Reclaiming Their Voting Power
Denise Ruben is getting ready to vote in a presidential election for the first time in 16 years. Back then, in 2008, a young Illinois senator named Barack Obama was preparing to make history as America’s first Black president. This year, Kamala Harris — the first Black woman to serve as vice president — hopes to follow […]
Posted inElections, Politics & Policy
Election Officials Ready for Smooth Election Following SEB Rule Overturn
Lashandra Little says she and other Fulton County election officials breathed a collective sigh of relief last month when a judge invalidated a controversial set of seven state election rules that many feared would create “chaos” on Election Day. “Training had already started,” Little, who serves as Fulton County’s voter education and outreach manager, told […]
Posted inPolitics & Policy
Michelle Obama Addresses Voter Apathy at Atlanta Rally
Savannah State University Student Makiyah Williams headed to the polls last week to vote early in this year’s presidential election, but after listening to Michelle Obama speak Tuesday night, she said she realized her work isn’t done. “It ignited my fire to go out and get more people to vote,” Williams told Capital B Atlanta […]
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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 […]