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Samantha Hogan

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Investigative reporter with @ajc. Formerly @mainemonitor. Past grantee of @IWMF @PulitzerCenter @Report4America @ProPublica LRN
Atlanta, GA Joined April 2009
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Samantha Hogan @SAHogan
Essential reading: How the great-great-granddaughter of an enslaved Georgia man became the first Black woman governor in the U.S.

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www.ajc.com Keisha Lance Bottoms and the long road from Crawfordville to Governor’s Mansion More than 160 years after her ancestors were enslaved in Georgia, the former Atlanta mayor has made history as the first Black woman elected governor.
Samantha Hogan @SAHogan
The country has a habit of placing extraordinary expectations on those who are first, particularly Black Americans…They are expected to represent a race, redeem a history and somehow escape the ordinary failures and compromises of political life. ajc.com/politics/2026/…
www.ajc.com Keisha Lance Bottoms and the long road from Crawfordville to Governor’s Mansion More than 160 years after her ancestors were enslaved in Georgia, the former Atlanta mayor has made history as the first Black woman elected governor.