Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District candidate Shomari Figures took the stage this evening at the Democratic National Convention for the final night of the four-day event in Chicago.
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A lineup of speakers and performances including the Chicks and Leon Panetta addressed the audience before Vice President Kamala Harris.Figures, vying for a congressional seat, is headed to the November election in a race with Republican candidate Caroleene Dobson. Figures spoke to night honoring his mother, Alabama State Sen. Vivian Figures who is also there. He also honored his late father, Sen. Michael Figures.“All of America all of us all of us owe a debt to courageous freedom fighters both known and unknown a debt that can never be repaid but what we can do is ensure that the work of those fighters who came before us continues and that our sacred right to vote is always protected,” he said.
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