#Election2020 | Biden: ‘My plan to lift every voice in Black America’
By Joe Biden | 2020 Democratic Nominee for US President | October 31, 2020
There is injustice in America. There is discrimination. There is a legacy of racism and inequality that lives still in our institutions, our laws, and in too many people’s hearts that makes it harder for Black people to succeed. These are facts in the United States of America in 2020,...
#Election2020: Where can you drop your absentee ballot?
By Itoro N. Umontuen | The Atlanta Voice | October 31, 2020
With the use of absentee ballots on the rise this year, many counties are offering drop boxes for contactless delivery of your ballot after you’ve finished filling it out. Drop boxes are monitored by video cameras for security, and ballots must be collected at least once a day. The boxes...
#Election2020: Obama to campaign for Biden in Atlanta Monday
By Itoro N. Umontuen | The Atlanta Voice | October 31, 2020
Former United States President Barack Obama will campaign in Atlanta this Monday in a final push to flip the Peach State for the Democrats for the first time since 1992. Details of the rally have not been publicized. Obama’s visit will come after President Donald Trump and Senator Kamala Harris...
#Election2020 | Trump: ‘My message to Black America’
By Donald J. Trump | 45th President of the United States | October 30, 2020
In 2016, I had a straightforward question for Black Americans: “What do you have to lose?” Black Americans don’t have to ask what they have to lose in 2020. Instead, the question should now be, “how much more do we have to gain?” As your President, I’ve done more for...
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms appoints chief equity officer
By Marshall A. Latimore | The Atlanta Voice | October 29, 2020
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms appointed Qaadirah Abdur-Rahim to serve as the City of Atlanta’s Chief Equity Officer, a senior-level cabinet position that serves as the Executive Director of the Mayor’s Office of One Atlanta. Abdur-Rahim will work with City leadership to develop progressive policies and programs to address issues of...
#Election2020: Eleven days before Election Day, Sen. Harris makes final pitch to Atlanta-area voters
By Itoro N. Umontuen | The Atlanta Voice | October 29, 2020
On Friday, Oct. 23, a mere 11 days before the American public officially casts its votes for the next occupant of The White House, Democratic candidate for Vice President Kamala Harris’s private jet touched down on the tarmac at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. It would not be the first time...
#Election2020: Offset, Common join Joe Biden’s drive-in rally at Lakewood
By Itoro N. Umontuen | The Atlanta Voice | October 27, 2020
With seven days remaining until Election Day, Joesph R. Biden held a drive-in rally at Lakewood Amphitheatre as he makes his closing arguments. Many political observers stated it wasn’t smart for Biden to campaign in the Peach State because quadrennial battleground states such as Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin hang in...
