Georgia’s Stacey Abrams speaks in Durham, Charlotte this year. How to buy tickets.
Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate and voting rights activist Stacey Abrams, who has been given much of the credit for her state turning blue in the 2020 presidential election, will make stops in Durham and Charlotte this November.
As part of a national tour, called A Conversation with Stacey Abrams, the former Georgia House minority leader will speak at Ovens Auditorium in Charlotte on Nov. 17 and at the Durham Performing Arts Center on Nov. 18.
Her visit follows national attention on her efforts against voter suppression and on behalf of Democratic candidates ahead of the 2020 election, in part through her organization Fair Fight. Those efforts proved successful as now-President Joe Biden narrowly won Georgia, flipping it from a red state to a blue state, and Democrats won both of the state’s Senate seats. North Carolina Democrats are hopeful that something similar might happen here in the coming years.
Abrams has published several books — including “Our Time is Now,” which published in 2020, and “Lead from the Outside” — and will speak on her tour about politics, social justice and “being a true voice for change,” according to an announcement.
Tickets go on sale Friday, May 21 for both events.
You can find tickets to the Charlotte event on the Blumenthal Performing Arts website.
Find tickets to the Durham event on the DPAC website, on Ticketmaster or at DPAC’s ticket office, 123 Vivian Street, Durham, NC. The ticket office can be reached at 919-680-2787 and is open Monday through Friday from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM.
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This story was originally published May 19, 2021 at 10:11 AM with the headline "Georgia’s Stacey Abrams speaks in Durham, Charlotte this year. How to buy tickets.."
