black voters matter
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Coalition Aimed At Increasing Black Voter Turnout For Midterms Begins This Week
The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, including 50 organizations, look to engage African American voters ahead of the midterm elections.
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Florida Man’s Congressional Maps Upheld By Florida Supreme Court
The Gov. Desantis-endorsed voting maps which may dilute Black voter power in Florida will be intact for the 2022 midterms.
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Activists Follow the Example of the Freedom Riders During a Trip to Promote Rights for Black Voters
The bus trip traveled the reverse route that the original Freedom Riders took through various Southern states in the 1960s.
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Ding, Dong, the Witch Is Dead—and the WNBA Helped Usher In Her Demise
Sen. Kelly Loeffler is having a bad day. When last we left her, the Wicked Witch of the West South was seen licking her wounds after flooding the streets of Atlanta with tears so white that they want to speak to the manager. If the cause of her distress is unclear, allow me to paint…
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Voters of Color Are Helping Flip GOP Strongholds. We Know Exactly Who Should Get Their Flowers for That
There are many who will scramble to take credit—or to diminish—the surge of Democratic votes that flipped Wisconsin and Michigan blue and are on the verge of similarly flipping Arizona, Georgia, and Pennsylvania, states that helped elect Donald Trump in 2016. No matter how they arrived—be it through the mail, in lengthy early voting lines,…
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Activist Patrisse Cullors Delivers Final Rallying Cry to Black Voters: 'Add to the Power We Built in the Streets'
Election Day is finally here, after a historic early voting period that has seen record numbers of voters turning up across the country to make their voices heard at the ballot box. But although we are many decades removed from the Jim Crow laws that formally barred Black voters from voting, ghosts of the past…
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Black Senior Citizens in Georgia Ordered Off Bus Taking Them to Vote
On Monday, the first day of in-person early voting in Georgia, dozens of black senior citizens were ordered off a bus taking them to a nearby polling station to cast their ballots. A county clerk for Jefferson County, Ga., had ordered a senior center to take about 40 of its residents—all of whom are black—off…