‘This is our moment, this is our time’: Georgia’s Black women unite under the Gold Dome on day one of session

Former Georgia State representative Dee Dawkins-Haigler stood in front of dozens of women, each dressed in matching brown t-shirts. Dawkins-Haigler, who knows her way around the Georgia State Capitol after serving District 91, stepped to the microphone and said she was excited to be there with the other women because “God has assembled this for such a day like this.”Dawkins-Haigler, a radio talk show host on local radio station 1380 WAOK said, “No longer will we take a second seat to anybody.”& Linda Jordan (above) wore her Georgia Black Women’s Roundtable t-shirt to the State Capitol for the gathering. Photo by Donnell Suggs/The Atlanta VoiceThe Georgia Black Women’s Roundtable (GBWR), an arm of the Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda, gathered alongside supporters of other Black-interest groups on the south wing steps of the Georgia Capitol on Monday morning with several general issues in mind. On a day when dozens of organizations and hundreds of elected officials were to be downtown pining to be heard, the GBWR wanted to make sure their voices were also heard. There are only 40 days (through late March/early April) to decide on the state’s annual operating budget and to propose state laws by the...