of Black women, the profiles of several HBCU alumnae politicians are also receiving the attention they more than deserve. Among them are Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University graduate, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, a graduate of Spelman College. Fair Fight, an anti-voter suppression organization focused on voting rights in Georgia and Texas, which Abrams is the mastermind behind, is being credited with helping Harris and President Joe Biden win the presidency, and Jon Ossoff and Morehouse College alumnus, Rev. Raphael Warnock, pastor of the late Congressman John Lewis, win Democratic U.S. senate seats.
Her organizing prowess has been hailed a blueprint for voter empowerment while her anticipated impact has been likened to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And because of it, Abrams was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize on the first day of Black History Month. Joining Abrams on the nomination list was the Black Lives Matter movement whose call for systemic change to racism was the wellspring of protests around the world in 2020 following the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Co-founded in 2013 in response to the decision to acquit the man who killed Trayvon Martin, the movement gained wider recognition the following year during protests over the killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner.
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