In Alabama and across the country, pride swells as black female voters show they matter
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Every election since she was 16, Catrena Norris Carter has gone door to door, urging black Alabama voters to the polls.
In the months leading up to Tuesday's U.S. Senate race, the community activist and a band of mostly black women registered college students to vote, waved signs on street corners and egged on fellow African-Americans at churches, sororities and even football stadiums to be sure to cast their ballots.
"Hey, we worked our butts off," said Norris Carter, 49, an organizer with Vote or Die, a get-out-the-vote group that canvassed on Democrat Doug Jones' behalf in Birmingham, Montgomery and
