that's why the person running the new georgia project, latasha brown, helen butler, the leaders of americansng justice and so many other groups have been working hard to expand access to the right to vote. it is only eligible citizens who will ever be able to cast a ballot, but it should be every eligible citizen we should want to participate. it is deeply disappointing to me, in fact, it is deeply diss heartening a former u.s. senator would spend her time and resources to publicly engage in once again the type of conspiracy theory that say only certain americans should valued and have their votes counted, and that's what kelly loeffler is proposing. but i can't be surprised she accepted the support of marjorie taylor green, a qanon conspiracy theorist, because in her mind winning at all costs is more important than protecting the united states and fundamentals of our democracy. >> i'm glad you clarified about what i said about the constitution. that's why john lewis fought so hard for the voting rights act and people are fighting for that. stacey abrams, thank you so much. it is always a pl

took us stacy abrams or latasha brown to see the humanity and the value in black rural folk as voterswho values i just as much as a black voter in atlanta put for some reason -- prioritizing netty's language over seelye as if her conversation was not valuable and she was not sophisticated in her thoughts. i wonder what you make of that -- just the -- how we continue to think about black rural women as yet another dimension of this story and the story-telling that alice walk are brings to light and puts in spotlight. >> a beautiful question. her emphasis for writing the novel was for her to have a book that -- in the voice of her mother and that's what i was saying earlier, he precursor is hurton who was able to partly tell a novel -- write a novel with that kind of speech pattern taking over the book but doesn't do it entirely. so alice from the beginning to end wants us to hear the beauty of seeley's language which is another way of saying to hear the brillens of the way in which her family spoke in it union garbage. the the genius of the novel and also as i write in the book, us a f

also actually during that time, not only did we have a very diverse coalition, but that included latasha brownlier today we were at a funeral service for our dear friend and freedom fighter keith komu jennings. this is something that goes back decades in our family and these women that thele world are now discovering have been on the front lines in the 90s. these are the same women that helped nurture yolanda. when yolanda was an infant, natasha would come to the house and we would sit around as yolanda was a brand new baby. these are the type of leaders and women that she has been nurtured on and that have been leading fight for decades here in georgia and all around our country and world. >> now, yolanda, you spoke at the commitment march last august directly addressing the young people in the crowd, that massive crowd. listen to what you said. >> my generation has already taken to the streets peacefully and with masks and socially distanced to protest racism. and i want to ask the young people here to join me in pledging that we have only just begun to fight and that we will be the generati

it took stacy abrams or latasha brown to see the humanity and value in black rural folks as voters whose value was just as much as the black voter in atlanta but for some reason it's like, even not wanting, prioritizing nettie's language overseas, that conversation you talkabout is if her conversation was not valuable and as if she was not sophisticated early in her thoughts . i wonder what you make of that, just how we continue to think about black rural women as yet another dimension of this story and the storytelling that alice walker brings to life and took to the spotlight. >> that's a beautiful question and i guess the emphasis for writing the novel was for her to have a book that echoed the voice of hermother. so that's i guess when i was saying earlier . as we now know zora neale hurston was able to partly tell on novel, or write a novel with that kind of speech pattern taking over the book but it doesn't do it entirely so alice from beginning to end wants us to hear the beauty of her language, the brilliance of the way in which her family spoke. and so i think that's part of the