LaTosha Brown Is Only Getting Started
The Black Voters Matter co-founder is organizing voters ahead of Georgia’s Senate runoffs, but her work doesn’t end there
LaTosha Brown is exhausted after the longest election season in recent history, but she has no plans to take a breather. Georgia’s two U.S. Senate seats are for grabs, and the runoff elections next month will decide which party controls the chamber. So Brown, co-founder of the organization Black Voters Matter, has been throwing herself into her work in the Peach State. The group has been holding voter registration drives ahead of the December 7 deadline to register, educating people on how to get an absentee ballot, doing socially distanced caravans throughout the state, and planning for a “Let’s Do It Again” bus tour to remind folks that the early voting period starts on December 14.
It’s a lot, and Brown knows it. But Georgia flipped blue in November for the first time in nearly three decades, thanks to the tireless work of grassroots organizers, so it’s only right to harness that energy into the runoffs. “It’s like what my grandmother said: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” Brown told GEN. “We have an infrastructure in place that has been proven to work.” Ahead, Brown tells us about the challenges of the Senate runoffs, her hopes for a new South, and…
