And it was votes from Clayton County — the heart of the late civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis’s old district — that pushed Biden into the lead. At that moment, it wasn’t just her county that needed a local reporter — her country did, too. Kemp’s work is emblematic of the sort of journalism that is vanishing by the day in the United States. Born in New Orleans, she moved to Clayton County in 1989 to work as a news writer at CNN, where her father, Jim Kemp, was a senior editor — “a journalist’s journalist,” Kemp said. In her story the next day, Kemp noted that the observers were mostly White men alleging that the workers, mostly Black women, were breaking the law.

Source: Washington Post November 10, 2020 19:31 UTC