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Voting rights activist and former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams tried to keep the Major League Baseball 2021 All-Star Game in the city of Atlanta, a journalist with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. The new information contradicts Gov. Brian Kemp’s allegation that Abrams and President Joe Biden caused the game to be relocated out of Atlanta because they had “spent days lying to Georgians and the American people.” Political reporter Greg Bluestein tweeted on April 7, “I’m told that @staceyabrams spoke to an @MLB senior adviser and “strongly” urged the le...

10 Apr 2021 A majority of Democrats agree with Major League Baseball’s (MLB) political decision to pull the All-Star game and Draft from Atlanta over the state’s recent election law, but a plurality of black voters consider it a bad decision, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Friday showed. The survey, taken April 7-8, among 1,000 likely U.S. voters, asked respondents if they believed it was a “good idea or a bad idea” for the MLB to move the All-Star game and Draft to Denver following the passage of the Peach State’s election law, which, despite popular belief, expands voting in ...

08:27pm EDT| Stacey Abrams To Female Business Leaders: You Can Use Your Platform To Amplify Need For Voting Rights Share to Facebook Share to Linkedin Voting rights advocate Stacey Abrams and Xtreme Solutions founder Phyllis Newhouse hosted a Zoom conversation with female founders, CEOs and investors about how they can use their platforms to promote voting rights in the United States. Forbes Phyllis Newhouse was watching the news in the days following Georgia’s passage of a far-reaching bill that restricts voting rights when she heard one of the anchors say something that piqued her interes...

8 Apr 2021 Major League Baseball’s (MLB) Commissioner Robert Manfred feared relocating the All-Star Game from Atlanta because the move would balloon into a “political event.” Fox Business report, after Stacey Abrams, LeBron James, and Al Sharpton urged MLB Commissioner Robert Manfred to relocate the All-Star Game from Atlanta, the MLB Commissioner apprehensively made the decision. Breitbart News reported the three individuals did indeed hold extensive discussions with the MLB Commissioner, influencing him to move the All-Star Game due to players potentially boycotting the event. But w...

Letter: Biden and corporate America show their ignorance on Georgia voting law Readers' Forum © Patrick Semansky, Associated Press President Joe Biden speaks after meeting with leaders from Georgia’s Asian-American and Pacific Islander community, Friday, March 19, 2021, at Emory University in Atlanta, as Vice President Kamala Harris listens. A few days ago, President Joe Biden commented on the new Georgia voting law, which he obviously had not read. In addition to saying it was “Jim Crow 2.0,” Biden said, among other things, the law closed polls at 5 p.m. and would no...