Black Republicans in Georgia are planning to capitalize on the small-but-significant gains that President-elect Donald Trump achieved with Black voters in this year’s election, as their party works to broaden its appeal to Black voters far beyond 2024. Data shows that Black folks who chose not to vote played a decisive role helping Trump win […]
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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 […]
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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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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 […]
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Harris, Obama Rally in Georgia to Boost Black Voter Turnout
Disha Williams drove all the way down from Columbia, South Carolina, on Thursday to sell T-shirts, buttons, and hats at the latest Kamala Harris rally in Clarkston, about 10 miles northeast of downtown Atlanta. The 40-year-old entrepreneur and her husband started their family printing company in 2008, the year Barack Obama’s likeness helped retail business […]
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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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Churches Drive Early Voting Surge in Georgia with ‘Souls to the Polls’
After listening to Kamala Harris speak at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church on Sunday, Jeremiah Kilgore and his wife, Katrina, said they were heading straight to the polls to vote for the vice president. “I look forward to seeing her get inaugurated in 2025,” Jeremiah said of Harris after exiting the Stonecrest megachurch with his […]
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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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Harris to Appear Sunday at Atlanta-Area Megachurch for Key Campaign Stop
Vice President Kamala Harris is scheduled to appear at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in the Atlanta-metro area on Sunday as Georgia faith leaders ramp up their 2024 “Souls to the Polls” operation across the state. Harris campaign officials and New Birth Pastor Jamal Bryant confirmed news of the vice president’s visit to the 10,000-member […]