As Goes The South
Spring, 2020
If you think the South is a bastion of retrograde conservatism, a co-founder of Black Voters Matter has news for you In October 2018 I pulled up to a community center in Jefferson County, Georgia to meet with a group of senior citizens and talk about the importance of voting. Many of them had heard of the Black Voters Matter bus—what we call the “Blackest Bus in America”—and they wanted to go outside and see it. So we wrapped up the program, went out to the bus and had an impromptu pep rally, si...