So you just finished voting and I wonder who and what you were thinking about when you made your decision.

Thinking about multiple people, my big mama who raised her entire family here in historic

summer hill community.

On the morning of November 8, Election Day, St. Treesia Rivers came to the Liberty Baptist

Church in Atlanta, Georgia to cast her ballot.

My sister Valencia, when her representative heard today, she died last year.

She lied off COVID at Grading Memorial Hospital.

I'm sorry.

St. Treesia stood tall in the quiet parking lot as she spoke to me and owner T-shirt was

a picture of her sister.

We were together voting for Raphael Warnock before and I just wanted to bring her with me today

to make sure I was what I heard.

And like St. Treesia, when black folks vote, they're often carrying more than just themselves

into the ballot booth.

Take Eleanor Day, a 34 year old Georgia resident who cast a ballot for the very first time this

year.

You know, I never voted because of my religious belief or growing up as your hover witness,

but you know, changing again more information and background information, it led me up to

vote because I have young girls coming up.

So that will let me to come out and vote.

You know, to take a stand for night, if I'm not going to take a stand for myself, take

a stand for my kids and other women and other young kids that's coming up to do not have

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