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Article snippet: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Prominent black leaders from Alabama and across the country are descending on the Yellowhammer State to help push Democrat Doug Jones over the finish line in the Senate race against Republican candidate Roy Moore. Jones and his campaign spent Sunday working with top black Democratic surrogates around the state in a unified effort to drum up support. This included an afternoon campaign stop in Birmingham with Alabama Democratic Rep. Terry Sewell and New Jersey Sen. MORE (D-La.). Sparking strong black voter turnout has been an integral part of Jones’s strategy as he hopes to score an upset victory over Moore in Tuesday’s Senate special election. Jones leads the polls with black voters by huge margins, thanks in no small part to his role prosecuting men who bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church during the Civil Rights Movement. But it remains unclear whether the unified effort will be enough to change Tuesday’s outcome in such a deep-red state. “Will we now raise up the echoes and let people know that democracy is not a spectator sport? You can’t sit on the sidelines and cheer for teams to win. You have to get into the game, it is a full-contact, participatory endeavor,” Booker told a crowd in front of the Jones campaign headquarters in Birmingham. “The opposite of justice is not injustice, it is inaction, it is indifference, silence. We have to remind people that faith without works is dead.” Before arriving at the office in downtown Birmingham... Link to the full article to read more