‘It Was Church’: Alabama State Sen. Merika Coleman Joined 40,000 Other Black Women on Zoom to Support Kamala Harris

By Sym Posey | The Birmingham Times Four years ago, a Zoom meeting to build support for Kamala Harris as the Democratic vice presidential nominee attracted just 90 participants. On Sunday night, an estimated 40,000 Black women and allies logged on to Zoom and another 50,000 women on other platforms at the same time to support her brand-new presidential campaign. Among those was State Sen. Merika Coleman (D-Pleasant Grove) who said the virtual gathering was “church. It was a celebration of sisterhood, but it was also a call to action,” she told The Birmingham Times on Tuesday. “It was supposed to be a max of 1,000 people on the call, then we got notice that they were going to up it and it went 3,000 and it just continued to grow and grow. That’s the excitement of Black women all over the country.” The excitement and discussion came just hours after President Joe Biden announced the end of his reelection campaign and endorsement of Harris. Zoom typically maxes out at 1,000 participants but a female executive at the video conferencing company stepped in to increase the capacity to 40,000, said Aimee Allison, who has attended many of the weekly calls...