Just in: Kasim Reed also to have speaking role at DNC 2016

Next week's Democratic National Convention is getting more Georgia-centric by the minute.

We told you earlier today that House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams, D-Atlanta, would be speaking from the convention stage in Philadelphia on Monday.

Now, a Hillary Clinton campaign official tells The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed will also have a speaking role next week.

Dates and timing of Reed's address will be announced later.

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