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Our mission is to make sure Black communities are not simply informed about the decisions shaping our future, but equipped to help make those decisions. An informed community is a powerful community.

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Each story starts with the national record, then breaks it down to your state, county, city and address: how it affects you, who decides and who pays. Newest first.

Georgia 2026

7 statewide offices won by Black women in Georgia

One campaign spent $220 million. Black women won 7 statewide offices anyway. The votes, the money and what these offices can now do.

Disclosure: SourceLine’s founder, Kazemde Ajamu, was part of Real Men for Keisha, a supporter group that backed Keisha Lance Bottoms for governor and held a fundraiser for her campaign. Every figure in this story comes from the public record and is checked the same way for every candidate.

Inside: Georgia’s new leaders · Where the votes came from · What these offices control · People power and big money · How close the legislature is · What she promised · What comes next · What you can do · Where you live

Read the story › November 4, 2026 · 5 minute read

Georgia governor 2026

Keisha Lance Bottoms is projected to win Georgia's governor race. What comes next?

The AP projects Keisha Lance Bottoms will be Georgia's next governor, the first Black woman elected governor of any state. What a governor decides.

The Associated Press projected at about 9:24 pm Eastern on November 3 that Keisha Lance Bottoms, the Democratic nominee and former mayor of Atlanta, has won the race for governor of Georgia. SourceLine does not call races. The projection is the Associated Press’s.

Inside: What happened tonight · A first for the country · What comes next · Reach the governor’s office · Where you live

Read the story › November 3, 2026 · 2 minute read

Early vote 2026

How many Black voters voted early in Georgia and North Carolina in 2026?

Black early voting in 2026 beside the 2022 midterm, county by county in Georgia and North Carolina, and who sets the rules for your vote.

Black voters showed up early this year. In Georgia, at least 838,672 Black voters cast a ballot early in person or by mail by November 2, 2026. In the 2022 midterm, the last election without a president on the ballot, the final count was 741,633.

Inside: Why only two states · Where the count stands, county by county · What these numbers do and do not say · What it means, and who decides · Who pays · Who decides, from you up · What you can do today · Where you live

Read the story › November 3, 2026 · 3 minute read

Black Men and the Vote

Black men believe in voting. Who is speaking to them?

92% of young Black men say voting matters, yet 3.3 million registered Black citizens did not vote in 2024. What the record shows, and what you can do.

Start with what is true and strong. Black men believe in voting. In a 2026 survey of more than 1,600 registered Black men ages 18 to 45 in Georgia, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and South Carolina, 92% said voting is important.

Inside: Registered, and still at home · How the vote moved · Not absent, misread · What they say, and why it matters · In their own words, here in Georgia · Two things the record points to · Who pays · Who decides, from you up · What you can do this week · Where you live

Read the story › October 31, 2026 · 5 minute read

Proof of change: Wesley Chapel Road

What happened when Southwest DeKalb asked who decided?

Residents asked how care homes reached Wesley Chapel Road with no county vote. Within days the plan ended. Here is the record, in order.

Parents, alumni and homeowners around Southwest DeKalb High School did something this month that changed the record in a matter of days. They asked a plain question: how did a building project next to our school move forward without a public hearing, a county vote or a notice in the mail?

Inside: What was planned · How it reached the neighborhood without a vote · The sequence · Why Claratel says it ended the plan · Who pays · Still open · Who decides, from you up · What you can do this week · Where you live

Read the story › October 31, 2026 · 4 minute read

Coming to your state

Decisions reported by Black newspapers and local news in states SourceLine is building next, with each state’s own numbers.

About these figures

Every figure on this page shows the year it describes. Public agencies release their numbers on their own schedules, often a year or more after the work of counting is done. The Census Bureau, for example, publishes its five year community survey each December, and the national reading test is given every two years. That is why some figures are not from this year. SourceLine updates each one as soon as the agency publishes it.

For some counties and small towns, SourceLine has not found meeting records online. Where it has not, we add them as they become available. A page that says SourceLine hasn’t updated a record yet means exactly that.