In our current political landscape, we are witnessing a pivotal moment in history where the power wielded by Black voters is being increasingly recognized and acknowledged—although not always with positive intentions or to positive ends. It is crucial to lean into this moment ahead of the 2024 election and recognize its implications for democracy and Black social life.
Read MoreThe Movement Matters
We are 16 months away from another presidential election; however, the campaign season is nearly in full swing.
Read More2014 Midterm Elections: You May Have Lost the Battle, But it Does Not Mean You Lost the War
Like so many others around the country on the evening of November 4, 2014, I was glued to my TV screen flipping in between the different major news networks for the results of the 2014 midterm elections.
Read MoreOnline Voting: The Wave of the Future?
It was a crisp fall day in 2008, when students all over the University of Memphis campus boarded buses heading to local voting facilities to cast their votes in a landmark, meritorious presidential election.
Read MoreMaking Election Day a Family Affair
I am very proud to say that Election Day is a huge event for my family. Ever since my boys were born, I have taken them to vote with me in each primary, runoff, midterm and general election.
Read MoreThe Voting Rights Act of 1965 – Reflections of a Generation Xer
I was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1973. My parents were immigrants from Guyana, a small Caribbean country on the northern coast of South America and they always believed in the American reality: that working hard, being a good person and staying conscientious were virtues with guaranteed dividends.
Read More50 Shades of Politics: Vote your Conscious or Your Color?
For the last 12 years, New York City or “Gotham City” as I love to call it, has been colored by streaks of yellow, red and white. That would be cowardice yellow, an unrighteous red, cloaked in a very pale white.
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