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The Associated Press sat down this week with Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate for governor in 2018 and a leading voice on ballot access, to talk about a sweeping new state law that tightens some Georgia voting rules after Democrats carried the state in the 2020 elections. The interview has been condensed for brevity: In this Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, file photo, Democrat Stacey Abrams walks on Senate floor before of members of Georgia’s Electoral College cast their votes at the state Capitol in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, Pool, File) AP: Please explain what you mean when you say ...

Published on March 16, 2021 at 10:36 pm Janelle Monáe’s specially created SXSW music video for her song "Turntables" played at the beginning of South by Southwest 2021 keynote speaker Stacey Abrams’ conversation with author N.K. Jemisin, highlighting Abrams’ work against voter suppression.  Democratic politician and activist Abrams and Jemisin, author of “The City We Became,” discussed Tuesday how the power of storytelling can give citizens the blueprint to create the change they want to see in society.  “Center the narrative around the voter, the citizen, the person,” Abrams...

Stacey Abrams launches campaign to combat racial inequities with vaccine Stacey Abrams finds it incomprehensible that the communities and regions most ravaged by the pandemic in Georgia have been getting the lowest percentages of vaccines and resources. According to the data that Abrams’ Fair Count has gathered, Southwest Georgia has been an “epicenter for the state’s troubled vaccine rollout.” African Americans make up more than 75 percent of the COVID-19 deaths in Albany, Abrams stated, yet that demographic is being vaccinated about half as often as their Caucasian counterpa...

Now that Stacey Abrams has secured three election victories in Georgia, the country’s most famous political organizer discusses the key to success for Marie Claire's April 2021 issue.

Republicans in Georgia are bickering these days -- about whether Donald Trump cost them their two Senate seats and the GOP majority in the chamber, about...