During its fifth anniversary celebration, nonprofit Stand Up Mobile invited attendees to reflect on voting rights history’s impact on ballot access today.
The organization, founded in Mobile in 2021, is a nonpartisan advocacy aimed at improving voter empowerment, education and turnout.
Stand Up Mobile was originally conceived by founders Amelia Bacon and Beverly Cooper as a means of promoting communal and voter strength among Mobile’s Black voters following the events at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021…