Rev. Horace Sheffield III, the father of Mayor Mary Sheffield, is endorsing Democratic candidate Jocelyn Benson for governor.
“I grew up in the era of the Civil Rights Movement,” Sheffield said in a press release issued by the Benson campaign. “My dad chaired the Birmingham Voter Education Project. James Farmer said something powerful: politics is about who gets what and how much. If you don’t want to participate, you’re letting someone else decide what you don’t have.”