ATLANTA ‒ By midnight, after a long day of helping voters, Tamieka Atkins decided to shut off the television, as results for the presidential election rolled in.
“I’ve done the staying up late and biting my nails,’’ said Atkins, executive director of ProGeorgia, a nonpartisan coalition of civic engagement groups. “It’s taking me a while to learn and this is what I tell other people and I’m telling it to myself, ‘Any one election is not a magic bullet to make everything better.’”
She said Black women have long fought ongoing battles over issues, including women’s rights, and winning elections…