Black Women Have Written The Playbook For Saving Our Democracy, And It Continues To Be Threatened From All Sides
Black women’s unwavering dedication to protecting voters is unmatched.
Black women at the polls. / Photo Credit: Getty Images
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The day after Election Day, I firmly believe that Black women across the country took a collective sigh of relief. After all,
we did it. We saved our democracy
The Georgia Coalition for Higher Education in Prison (GACHEP) announced that
Stacy Bell, professor of pedagogy in English at Oxford College, will serve as co-president of the nonprofit organization s first board of directors.
GACHEP is a coalition of higher education institutions providing college-level programs in Georgia prisons. The organization serves to build high-quality educational pathways, from pre-college coursework to accredited degree completion, for people who are in prison and people who have left prison in Georgia.
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
Jericho Brown will be celebrated as one of the newest members of the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame in November. The four 2021 inductees join a group of 69 acclaimed wordsmiths, including recipients of prestigious creative awards such as the Pulitzer Prize, the Academy Awards and even the Nobel Peace Prize.
ATLANTA, Ga. /Massachusetts Newswire – National News/ Despite the ongoing efforts of many leaders to suppress the voices of Georgia residents, Black and Brown voters turned out in record numbers, electing the most diverse leadership in the state’s history. Last week, the Georgia Coalition for the Peoples’ Agenda’s women’s network, Georgia Black Women’s Roundtable (BWR), took a short break from their fight against archaic voter suppression laws to recognize the historic leadership of local Black women during a virtual event, “Celebrating Valiant Women of the Vote: Refusing to Be Silenced.”
“Black women have worked extremely hard over the past year to make sure every eligible voter was able to cast a ballot that counted without fear or intimidation,” said Helen Butler, executive director of the Georgia Coalition for the Peoples’ Agenda. “We wanted to take a moment to recognize the impact their service has had on our community, locally and nationally.”
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RULING THE WEEK
Before record turnout in Georgia helped Joe Biden beat Donald Trump and the Democrats win the narrowest majority in the Senate, Black women in the state had been working tirelessly to expand voting rights for decades.
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Attorney Poy Winichakul was about 12 minutes into her testimony before the Georgia legislature’s Special Committee on Election Integrity. She was summing up how 47 states using absentee ballots had never discovered “widespread fraud,” and how the same could be said of Georgia in the 2020 elections. “Voting fraud” using absentee ballots, the voting rights attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center concluded, “is even less of a problem than being struck by lightning.”