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I always was intrigued and wanted to know who had the power to make decisions, who was the person that was the leader,” she says. I ve always had this sense of justice and so as I ve gotten older I ve realized those two things are connected. It’s something about this notion of power, and how people use their power.
Though her high school classmates deemed her most likely to succeed, Brown initially had her heart set on becoming a jazz singer. In school, I was known as a singer. I was known as somebody that would stand up for things. And in school, I was known to lead, Brown recalls. I would lead and take on stuff that even had barriers. I would go and enter in a contest with all the white girls even though I knew I was a chocolate girl, I would walk out like I was the cutest thing ever created.
February 2, 2021 5:00 AM
A rapidly growing $800 million dark money network helped anonymous donors pour a record amount of money into voter registration groups focused on increasing Democratic Party turnout ahead of the 2020 election.
The Tides Foundation, an organization that allows left-wing donors to fund political activism anonymously, raised over $800 million across its nonprofit network in 2019, a dramatic rise over previous figures.
Much of that money went to Get Out the Vote (GOTV) campaigns in the 2020 election cycle, including the Voter Registration Project, Rock the Vote, and the Voter Participation Center, which exploit IRS nonprofit rules to register new voters in Democratic-leaning areas that helped deliver key battleground states to President Joe Biden. The IRS considers voter registration a charitable activity for 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) nonprofits, provided it isn’t explicitly partisan.
How New Voters and Black Women Turned the Tides in Georgia
The elections of Biden, Warnock and Ossoff are the culmination of a years long tug of war among the members of Georgia’s racially, ethnically and ideologically diverse electorate.
In July 1964, Georgia restaurateur Lester Maddox violated the newly passed Civil Rights Act by refusing to serve three Black Georgia Tech students at his Pickrick Restaurant in Atlanta. Although this new federal law banned discrimination in public places, Maddox was determined to maintain a whites-only dining room, arming white customers with pick handles – which he called “Pickrick drumsticks” – to threaten Black customers who tried to dine there.