MIAMI — As the raindrops eased on the evening of Election Day, a fellow voter helped to lift Niecy Rahming out of her daughter’s car and into her wheelchair. Rahming, 95, made it to the polling station with 10 minutes to spare, casting her vote for what she hoped would be Florida’s first Black senator, […]
Raisa Habersham
Raisa Habersham is a freelance reporter based in South Florida. She was most recently the race and culture reporter at the Miami Herald, where her most recent work focused on South Florida politics. A Georgia native, Raisa previously worked for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Savannah Morning News, where she covered the murder and federal hate crime trials of the men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery. Her work has appeared in Atlanta Magazine, The Daily Beast, and Poynter.

