Today, leading actors from Queen Sugar, Dawn-Lyen Gardner and Omar J. Dorsey, will join forces with domestic workers part of Care in Action to “get out the vote” for Stacey Abrams.
The group will canvass key districts in the Atlanta metro area, as well as target Black-owned beauty salons and barbershops to encourage customers to vote.
The event is part of a continued effort by Care in Action to increase turnout among Black voters and voters of color, amid ongoing reports of massive voter suppression, voter intimidation, and malfunctioning voting machines.
Care in Action will mobilize beauty and barbershops to talk to as many customers as possible about voting for Stacey Abrams, encouraging them to take photos with posters, flyers, and stickers to show their support.
Created by Ava DuVernay and co-produced by Oprah Winfrey, Queen Sugar is one of only television shows that features the Black southern experience, featuring a the families’ daily lives of running a sugarcane farm in the Deep South.
The Queen Sugar actors canvassing on the last weekend of the election rounds out a series of famous Black influencers who have come to Georgia to encourage voters to vote for Stacey Abrams
