Politics & Government

Stacey Abrams Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize

The voting rights activist was named with former President Trump, Black Lives Matter and Jared Kushner as candidates for the 2021 award.

Voting rights activist Stacey Abrams has been named as a 2021 Nobel Peace Prize nominee along with former President Trump, Black Lives Matter and Jared Kushner.
Voting rights activist Stacey Abrams has been named as a 2021 Nobel Peace Prize nominee along with former President Trump, Black Lives Matter and Jared Kushner. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

ATLANTA — Atlanta voting rights activist and former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams was named Monday as a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, according to U.S. News and World Report.

Abrams, who has been widely credited with helping President Joe Biden win Georgia in the November presidential race against incumbent Donald Trump, and helping Democrats take control of the U.S. Senate, was tapped for her leadership in registering voters across the state.

Lars Haltbrekken, a Socialist Party member of Norway’s parliament, said in a Reuters report that Abrams’ work promoting nonviolent change through the ballot box made Abrams an eligible candidate in his view.

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"Abrams' work follows in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s footsteps in the fight for equality before the law and for civil rights," Haltbrekken said.

King, the Atlanta pastor-turned civil rights leader, was named a Nobel Peace laureate in 1964 for his leadership to enact social justice laws through nonviolent methods.

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Other nominees include Trump, his son-in-law Jared Kushner, the Black Lives Matter movement, climate crusader Greta Thunberg, Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, and the World Health Organization.

According to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Peace Laureates can be nominated by any of a number of entities or individuals, including members, advisers and board members of the committee, university professors and directors associated with social sciences, previous Nobel laureates, or members of the International Court of Justice in the Hague.


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