‘I am standing on shoulders made of steel’: Keisha Lance Bottoms highlights Georgia’s fraught history in rousing victory speech
After becoming the first Black woman elected governor of a U.S. state, the Democrat discussed her family’s roots in a former Confederate town.
Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has been elected governor of Georgia, making her the first Black woman in the U.S. to win the position. She used her victory speech as a platform to highlight just how far the state has come.
