ELECTION RESOURCES
Here's what it all means.
Many races are on the ballot in the 2024 elections, including opportunities to decide which judges will serve in state and local courts.
In some battleground states, Black voter turnout has experienced record highs, while in others, the numbers are lagging.
POLITICAL ISSUES
The African American Policy Forum is clarifying major election issues facing our communities.
The 10th anniversary of Michael Brown Jr.'s police killing in Ferguson, Missouri, spotlights the need for Black communities to develop ways to cope with such violence.
The United States severely underfunds child care, and this leaves families and child care providers struggling to keep up, child care advocate Mica Whitfield writes.
THE BLACK BALLOT
In the U.S. Senate's 235 years, there have only been 14 Senators who are Black, including the most recent additions, Lisa Blunt Rochester and Angela Alsobrooks.
In this final episode, our esteemed host Tiffany Cross, speaks with other black ballot voices about the realities of what’s at stake this election. The final stage will be set with a republican (Lenny Mcallister), an independent (samson styles) and two democrats (Reecie Colbert and Davante Jennings). The conversation will expand from voter suppression, the […]
Episode 19 of 'The Black Ballot' explores COVID-19’s impact, the rise of social media activism, and the spread of conspiracy theories that challenged American democracy.
The Washington Monthly took the time to compare and contrast the Biden and Trump Presidencies. In this final episode of The Black Ballot we take the viewer through the accomplishments and failures of each administration through these facts and through their own words in the 2020 debates. Trump, once again, expressed the possiblity of not […]
Black Ballot Videos
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION
Latest Political News
Vice President J.D. Vance is the walking proof-of-concept for the lie at the heart of white grievance politics.
Four House Republicans signed a discharge petition last week that forces a vote on extending ACA subsidies, despite House Speaker Mike Johnson's refusal.
Black women in politics face intense misogynoir, but Rep. Jasmine Crockett refuses to be distracted, embracing her authenticity.
Democrats haven’t won statewide office since 1994 and have left an average of 50 seats uncontested during every election cycle since.Â
This episode of The Covfefe Chronicles breaks down Trump's new national security strategy and why Black Americans should pay close attention.
THE BLACK BALLOT – EPISODE 18