OUR PURPOSE
OUR GOAL IS TO INCREASE POWER IN OUR COMMUNITIES. EFFECTIVE VOTING ALLOWS A COMMUNITY TO DETERMINE ITS OWN DESTINY.
LATEST NEWS
Court Ruling Declares Florida Senate Bill 90 Unconstitutional, Reaffirms Need For Federal Voting Rights Bills
Today’s ruling from a federal district judge confirms what we’ve known all along: Florida Senate Bill 90 is a complete violation of Black voting rights. Since the bill became law last year, we warned that restricting access to mail-in ballots and drop boxes, banning volunteer assistance, issuing deceptive registration warnings, and stopping food and water distribution in voting lines would have an outsized impact on Black communities. We were so [...]
Historic Signing Antilynching Bill Is A Testament To The Power, Perserverance Of Black Activists
The historic bill signing of the Emmett Till Antilynching Act is a testament to the power and perseverance of Black advocates. For more than 100 years, Black people have fought to make lynching – one of the nation’s most hideous traditions – a federal crime. But time and time again, these bills faced steep opposition from racist, white supremacist lawmakers; the United States legislatures has blocked federal antilynching bills more [...]
Senate Republicans Are Turning Judge Jackson’s Confirmation Hearings Into Racist Political Theater
We are watching racism play out in front of our very eyes. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is a perfectly qualified and highly regarded jurist on the brink of making history as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court. But as Judge Brown Jackson sits through a second day of Senate questioning, Senate Republicans have turned her confirmation hearings into political theater with racist, baseless attacks. There were even occasions [...]