The state is at a crossroads in politics that goes well beyond one story, with pivotal moments, movements and citizens on the ground that brought the state to the political boiling point that led to Georgia’s historic flip to blue.
The new podcast Gaining Ground: The New Georgia is threading these narratives by going deeper into the people responsible for this moment and exploring how all of these stories collectively have and will continue to shape history.
These stories are told by Georgians, about Georgians, for Georgians, with the goal of driving Georgians to the polls for the runoffs. Atlanta natives and journalists Rembert Browne and Jewel Wicker serve as hosts for this podcast collaboration between Atlanta-based Tenderfoot TV and Crooked Media’s Pod Save America.
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A brief glimpse of a select few stories listeners can expect:
- How the Black Lives Matter movement, as well as others, influenced the election and other movements that then lead to the flip, including the story of how former Atlanta Dream WNBA star Angel McCoughtry led the charge to have the league #sayhername (Breonna Taylor)
- Representative Matthew Wilson, a former public-school teacher who ran for office in order to make a change, and ultimately flipped a seat that had traditionally gone uncontested
- Abrams run against Kemp who refused to step down from overseeing his own election, and how their relationship shift in 2020 shaped the election
- Commentary around ways the voter suppression has revolutionized voting participation as captured by telling Stacey Abrams and interviews with Nse Ufot and her grassroot team at The New Georgia Project
- How rapper and activist Killer Mike and other community advocates are flipping the power back to the people they are representing
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