After leading at the polls all evening, Keisha Lance Bottoms took the stage just after midnight at the Hyatt Regency downtown. A DJ played Drake’s “Started from the Bottom” as she entered, flanked by family and Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed.
Her speech to supporters early Wednesday touched on her family’s history, transportation and education.
As she addressed the crowd, she paraphrased a line from Maya Angelou’s “Still I Rise”: “I am the hope of the slave.”
“I stand here with the blood of slaves and slave owners running through my veins,” Bottoms said. “And I look at each of you and I’m reminded what is possible in this city.”
