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For Hammer & Hope @readhammerandhope, our board member, Lisa Armstrong @lisaarmstrong_journalist, writes about a movemen
Press OnOctober 2, 2026

For Hammer & Hope @readhammerandhope, our board member, Lisa Armstrong @lisaarmstrong_journalist, writes about a movement in one rural middle Georgia town to protect Black ancestral land and resting places from being desecrated by a new railroad—a consequence of the systemic…

dismantling of Black voting rights. Read the story at bit.ly/gavotingrights. Photo credit: Ray Spears [Image description from Hammer & Hope: “Ida Lowe Blocker at her home in Sparta, Ga., April 18, 2026.”]
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