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'Time To Get The Job Done'

Stacey Abrams, the voting rights icon whose hard work organizing contributed to key and historic Democratic victories last year, has officially launched her campaign to be governor of Georgia.

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Now that there is no longer speculation about whether Stacey Abrams will run for governor of Georgia, people are eagerly…

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"Black women experience police brutality—yet they are often forgotten."

Kimberle Crenshaw, executive director of the African-American Policy Forum

"I could only name two Black superheroes off the top off my head."

Jazmin Truesdale, founder of Aza Comics

"People were quicker to shoot Black targets, relative to White targets with a gun."

Yara Mekawi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researcher