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Also known as Stacey Y. Abrams, Stacey Yvonne Abrams

American politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, and author (born 1973)

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Stacey Yvonne Abrams is an American politician, writer, lawyer, and jurist who was born in Madison, Wisconsin. A member of the Democratic Party, she has worked in Atlanta and is an African American citizen of the United States. She received her education at Spelman College, the University of Texas at Austin, and Yale Law School. Abrams has been recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection and the Time 100 collection.

As an author, Abrams has published works including *The evidence of things not seen*, *Coded justice*, *Our Time Is Now*, *Cal98 Sisters*, and *Stacey's Extraordinary Words*. She also writes under the pseudonym Selena Montgomery, with a genre focus on romance. Her political career includes a candidacy in the 2022 Georgia gubernatorial election.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1973
Works
22

Top works

  • The evidence of things not seen
  • Coded justice
  • Our Time Is Now
  • Cal98 Sisters
  • Stacey's Extraordinary Words

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Film & TV

Acting · Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.

Stacey Yvonne Abrams is an American politician, lawyer, and novelist who served as Minority Leader of the Georgia House of Representatives from 2011 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she was her party's nominee in the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election.

Known for

  • LOUDER: The Soundtrack of Change — Self2024
  • South to Black Power — Self (archive footage)2023
  • 2000 Mules — Self (archive footage)2022
  • Protect or Neglect — Self2021
  • Black Renaissance: The Art and Soul of Our Stories — Self2021
  • Justice Now: A BET Town Hall — Self - Fair Fight Founder2020
  • And She Could Be Next — Self2020
  • All In: The Fight for Democracy — Self2020
  • John Lewis: Good Trouble — Self2020
  • Whose Vote Counts, Explained2020

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1999-09-07

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
25
Total plays
79

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Stacey+Abrams">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Stacey Abrams

Academic profile · OpenAlex

1h-index
Works
1
Cited by
1

Research areas

SociologyArtLiteratureMetropolitan areaArchaeology

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Quotes

  • The minute the elections are over, the people who won—who did not share our values—are going to be working hard. We have to be working even harder.
  • We must remember that we’re in the state where the red clay gives life to generations of dreamers; a state where Martin marched on ballot boxes and challenged a nation’s conscience; a Georgia that gave us the Godfather of Soul, the queen of the Met, and sent a peanut farmer to the Oval Office. That is our Georgia.

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Key facts

Preceded by
DuBose Porter
Succeeded by
Bob Trammell
Constituency
84th district (2007–2013), 89th district (2013–2017)
Born
Stacey Yvonne Abrams , ( 1973-12-09 ) December 9, 1973 (age 52) , Madison, Wisconsin , U.S.
Party
Democratic
Relatives
Leslie Abrams Gardner (sister)
Education
Spelman College ( BA ) University of Texas, Austin ( MPA ) Yale University ( JD )
Website
Official website

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

Stacey Yvonne Abrams (/ˈeɪbrəmz/; born December 9, 1973) is an American politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, and author who served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017, serving as minority leader from 2011 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Abrams founded Fair Fight Action, an organization to address voter suppression, in 2018. Her efforts have been widely credited with boosting voter turnout in Georgia, including in the 2020 presidential election, when Joe Biden narrowly won the state, and in Georgia's 2020–21 regularly scheduled and special U.S. Senate elections, which gave Democrats control of the Senate.

Abrams was the Democratic nominee in the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election, becoming the first African-American female major-party gubernatorial nominee in the United States. She lost the election to Republican candidate Brian Kemp by a narrow margin of 1.4%. In February 2019, Abrams became the first African-American woman to deliver a response to the State of the Union address. She was the Democratic nominee in the 2022 Georgia gubernatorial election, and lost again to Kemp, this time by a much larger margin of 7.5%.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stacey Abrams” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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