Hundreds of Atlanta HBCU Students March to the Polls Ahead of Midterms
Clark Atlanta University graduate student Ahmad Minnis usually votes in his hometown of St. Louis, but this year, the 22-year-old said he'll vote in Georgia for the first time. "It's imperative to vote here because my vote will go farther," Minnis told Capital B Atlanta on Tuesday. "I feel as though St. Louis, Missouri, is OK." Clark Atlanta freshman and Chicago native Kennedy Atanda, 18, expressed a similar sentiment after casting her ballot in Georgia for the first time. "It feels good," she said. "My mom's always instilled in me that you have to vote." During an "AUC March to the Polls" event Tuesday, Minnis and Atanda were among the hundreds of Atlanta University Center students who walked from the Thomas Kilgore Jr. Campus Center at Morehouse College to a temporary early-voting location at Friendship Baptist Church in the nearby Vine City neighborhood. Clark Atlanta University…