Welcome, Stacey, and thank you for joining me today. Stacey is a former Georgia House representative, a voting rights activist, and the author of a new thriller, While Justice Sleeps. Margaret Hargrove: I'm Audible Editor Margaret Hargrove, and I'm so honored to be here today with Stacey Abrams. The post Stacey Abrams Talks Black Women in Senate and New Book appeared first on 21Ninety.Note: Text has been edited and does not match audio exactly.
“Rogue Justice” is Stacey Abrams’ follow-up to the New York Times bestseller “While Justice Sleeps.” She is a Supreme Court clerk who finds herself facing a blackmail threat to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court,” adding that, “ she’s got to unravel the mystery and try to save our lives,” Abrams said. “Avery Keene was so compelling in the first book that she got another story. A New Crime ThrillerĪlong with sharing her thoughts on the state of political representation for Black women, Abrams also talked about her new novel “Rogue Justice” out May 23.
In 2022, North Carolina’s Cheri Beasley tried but failed to become the third Black woman in the U.S senate. “Just as every other community got into that position of leadership through support and endorsement and engagement the same must be made available to Black women,” she saidĪ number of Black female politicians have run for The Senate office without success.
In Abrams’s view, all hands must be on deck to address this issue. And part of our responsibility is to understand Black women can lead,” she said. “Black women are seen as useful and necessary in propping up and supporting most of the facets of American society, but we are rarely seen as capable of actually leading. The lack of representation exists despite Black women being instrumental in the advancement of America’s socio-political landscape. Abrams added that the political landscape is where many of the laws that directly affect Black women’s livelihoods are deliberated and passed.
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