‘God told me to go’: Governor-elect Bottoms speaks at historic Ebenezer Baptist

The nation’s first black woman elected governor received a rousing welcome at a place of worship renowned as “America’s Freedom Church.”

Governor-elect Keisha Lance Bottoms attended services Sunday at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta’s Sweet Auburn neighborhood. It’s the same church where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preached and where he formed the organization that crusaded for civil rights.

She arrived with her husband, Derek, and her teenage daughter Lincoln…

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