Rev. Eric S.C. Manning says that his community, and others traumatized by racist violence, need more from political leaders than displays of “false grief.”
Though they criticized Democrats for blocking Janice Rogers Brown, in recent years Republicans passed up on three chances to put a Black woman on the Supreme Court.
If she is confirmed by the Senate, Ketanji Brown Jackson would become the third Black person and sixth woman to serve on the Court since its 1789 founding. The 51-year-old currently serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
An amendment to a law that restricts current officeholders from raising money while the General Assembly is in session would be extended to challengers, as well.
"Stacey's Extraordinary Words," a new picture book recounts the story of a girl who confronts her own self-doubt, and the school bully, by entering a spelling bee. It's a story that will sound familiar to those who following Stacey Abrams's campaign for governor of Georgia.