It wasn't long after Shomari Figures took the stage Thursday night at the DNC Convention in Chicago when the congressional candidate for District 2 credited his
It wasn't long after Shomari Figures took the stage Thursday night at the DNC Convention in Chicago when the congressional candidate for District 2 credited his parents for leading him down his own political path.
Figures, who has already been immersed in politics working with both the Biden and Obama administrations, knows the value and exposure a moment like this can bring. It was that value, the prospect of adding another Democrat to an already closely divided congress, that helped put him on the night’s speaker list... the same night Vice President Kamala Harris would accept her party's nomination for President of the United States.
During the brief speech Figures paid homage to Terri Sewell, Alabama's sole Democrat in congress, and a black woman, as well as giving shout outs to those who were plaintiffs in the federal lawsuit that lead to the redrawing of Alabama's 2nd congressional district. "That this district is one that America owes,” he said. “This district is one that includes the birthplace of a civil rights movement. Personally, I think Montgomery is the single most important city in America in the 21st Century because the greatest social movement the world has ever seen was born out of, was born out of that city."
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