Atlanta, GA – In a powerful show of civic engagement, state and local leaders converged upon the C.T. Martin Recreation Center polling location on Tuesday for a press conference in support of “Overload the Polls,” a statewide voter mobilization effort kicking off the first day of early voting. Spearheaded by Georgia Black Women’s Roundtable (BWR), […]
Val Demings for U.S. Senate
Long before she would become Orlando’s first female Chief of Police, Val Butler Demings learned from her parents about the American Dream. They didn’t have much: two parents and seven children in a small wood-framed house in Jacksonville. Her mother Elouise Butler worked as a maid; her father James as a janitor, landscaper, and orange […]
Actress and Comedian Kim Coles Gets Serious About Voting in Social Media PSA
By Edrea Davis – Award-winning actress, comedian and author, Kim Coles, is known for her ability to keep people laughing but in a new PSA released in partnership with Georgia Black Women’s Roundtable and Georgia Coalition for the Peoples’ Agenda (Peoples’ Agenda), Coles warns that this election is no laughing matter. The spot encourages people […]