November 2020

Stacey Abrams' decade of voter registration work through her organization Fair Fight Action was widely credited with registering hundreds of thousands of new voters in Georgia, helping flip the state for Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election — the first time Georgia voted Democratic for president since 1992. Her organizing model became a national template for grassroots democracy efforts.

Stacey Abrams' voter registration and mobilization organization Fair Fight Action was widely credited with registering hundreds of thousands of new voters in Georgia, flipping the state blue in the presidential election for the first time since 1992 and setting the stage for two Democratic Senate wins.

NASA astronaut Victor Glover launched to the International Space Station on the first operational SpaceX Crew Dragon mission (Crew-1), spending 168 days in space — the first long-duration ISS mission by a Black astronaut. He performed multiple spacewalks and later was named to the Artemis II crew for a lunar flyby.

NASA astronaut Victor Glover launched to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX Crew Dragon as part of Crew-1, spending nearly six months in space — the longest duration of any Black astronaut at that time. He was also the first Black astronaut to live aboard the ISS on a long-duration mission.

Cori Bush of Missouri and Jamaal Bowman of New York were elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as progressive challengers, joining the Squad. Bush, a Black Lives Matter activist and nurse, became the first Black woman elected to Congress from Missouri.