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Stacey Abrams
Democratic state reps from Texas met with Abrams to discuss combating GOP efforts to curtail voting access.
With voting rights under attack in 48 out of 50 state legislatures ... , the moment has never been more urgent," Abrams wrote in a push for the For the People Act.
Voting rights activist Stacey Abrams crusaded against the new voting laws in Georgia during a Senate hearing.
The Democratic voting rights activist didn't hold back when Sen. John Kennedy asked her to make her case against the restrictive changes.
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"Her courage ... its contagious," the former first lady said of the Georgia Democrat, who received the NAACP's first-ever Social Justice Impact Award.
"The only connection that we can find is that more people of color voted, and it changed the outcome of elections in a direction that Republicans do not like."
"We know that again and again these laws are designed for one specific purpose and that is to discourage or prevent people from voting," she said.
Black women have been at the forefront of almost every progressive social movement in the United States.
The former Georgia lawmaker was lauded for work that "follows in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.s footsteps in the fight for equality.
Black women are actually starting to use our power for ourselves, for the elevation of our own voices," said LaTosha Brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matter.
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