What Southern Black Organizers Know

Stacey Abrams, former candidate for Georgia governor, speaks at campaign event for Rev. Raphael Warnock, Democratic candidate for Georgia senate. Photo: Tom Williams/Getty Images

Mobilizing Black voters continues to be crucial and yet somehow elusive to many candidates in key states.

As Jewel Wicker writes for ZORA, “For many organizations and grassroots organizers, mobilizing Black voters in the South — which helped a state such as Georgia vote for a Democratic president for the first time since 1992 — has been a decade’s worth of work. But, organizers say tactics to get out…