On November 3, Georgia voters elected Keisha Lance Bottoms governor, the first Black woman elected governor of any U.S. state. In her victory speech, she spoke of her great-great-grandmother, born about twenty years before emancipation, and of standing on "shoulders made of steel." Those words belong to every Black woman who prayed, organized, and voted without being promised anything in return.

EWISE stands in solidarity with the Gullah Geechee community of Sapelo Island, Georgia, at this pivotal moment in their fight for...