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Black Voters Matter Virtual Bus Tour
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) — The Black Voters Matter Fund held a virtual town hall meeting addressing issues of black America faces with an emphasis on voting. Originally Black Voters Matter would ride around from state to state in their tour bus but because of COVID-19, they held a Virtual Bus Tour and made a “stop” in Mississippi today to engage Black voters ahead of the November election. The Virtual tour [...]
Poll Workers Needed to Fight Against Trump
In 2000, Ion Sancho had a front-row seat to the partisan mayhem and legal posturing surrounding Florida’s presidential recount. The Florida Supreme Court asked Sancho, then supervisor of elections in Florida’s capital, to be its technical adviser—second in charge—of overseeing the recount, which the U.S. Supreme Court abruptly halted in its Bush v. Gore decision, elevating George W. Bush to the presidency. As the U.S. heads toward 2020’s general election [...]
Black female voters say they want what they’re owed: power
This reporting was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists. Bernice Scott estimates that she logged 30 miles, knocked on 50 doors and made 25 calls each day for “a solid two months” ahead of South Carolina’s Feb. 29 primary, campaigning for Joe Biden in a state that sent him on his road to the nomination. She says she’s resting now, ahead of [...]