ATLANTA, Georgia – President Donald Trump's push to redistrict congressional maps and a Georgia state election law disproportionately affecting African Americans are aimed at diluting the power of the Black vote. Six decades after Atlanta was at the heart of the civil rights movement that granted Blacks in the southern states the right to vote, the community is fighting back.
The Sunday service at Atlanta’s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, where the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a senior pastor, is picking up steam, with the congregation punctuating their assent to the preachers and speakers on the pulpit with fervent “Yeahs!”, robust “Okays!” and the occasional “Amens!”
