‘I am standing on shoulders made of steel’: Keisha Lance Bottoms highlights Georgia’s fraught history in rousing victory speech

Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has been elected governor of Georgia, making her the first Black woman in the U.S. to hold the position. She also used her victory speech as a platform to highlight just how far the state has come. In her speech on the night of November 3 in Atlanta, Bottoms opened up about her family’s past, referencing her family members Shephard and Betsy Peek, who were enslaved in Crawfordsville during the mid-1800s. Bottoms shared how the day prior to th...