Stacey Abrams– U.S. voting rights activist, Democratic Party politician and New York Times bestselling author. She has been nominated for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for her work to promote nonviolent change via the ballot box. Abrams, whose work was credited with boosting voter turnout last year, helping Joe Biden win the U.S. presidency work follows in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s footsteps in the fight for equality before the law and for civil rights,” said Lars Haltbrekken, a Socialist Party member of Norway’s parliament.
After serving for eleven years in the Georgia House of Representatives, seven as Democratic Leader, in 2018, Abrams became the Democratic nominee for Governor of Georgia, winning at the time more votes than any other Democrat in the state’s history. Abrams was the first black woman to become the gubernatorial nominee for a major party in the United States, and she was the first black woman and first Georgian to deliver a Response to the State of the Union.
King, a Baptist minister who became a leader of the 1960s civil rights movement, won the Nobel prize in 1964 and remains among its most famous laureates.
The bottom line:These women are just some of the powers that represent the broader world of AfriKin leadership. Beyond the headlines that present a single version of the entire populace of people of African origin, we need to see leaders in each country making progress in creating prosperity for our AfriKin globally.
We have to do better. We need to understand that to truly support the lives of people of African origin and build a just society for all. It also means supporting their aspirations, ambitions, and goals.
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