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Black leaders cheer Georgia success, push for more progress

by Kat StaffordAaron Morrison
| January 7, 2021 3:26 PM

What started as a day of celebration for Black organizers, voters and other Georgians who helped deliver two historic Senate runoff victories was overshadowed Wednesday when a violent, mostly white mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol.

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