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
No matter how Brian Cole's case shakes out, you have to admit that a Black MAGA supporter arguing that all Trump pardons are created equal is kinda hilarious.
President Donald Trump has spent much of his second term doing everything but his actual job to avoid a GOP loss in the midterms.
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION
Latest Political News
After Calvin Duncan was elected to be Orleans Parish clerk of criminal court, Louisiana’s state legislature hastily moved to eliminate the office.
In the clip from his 2023 appearance on some right-winger's podcast, Ramaswamy declared, “A Black baby is probably safer…in the inner city of Chicago, than in the womb of his own Black mother."
We previously reported on Hegseth blocking Black and female U.S. Army members from being promoted; he's doing the same to the Navy now.
This wouldn't have happened if Trump had let the festival be more about celebrating the country and less about inflating his own already bloated ego.
Louisiana Gov. postponed a primary election already in progress to implement a redistricting effort that disenfranchises Black voters.
THE BLACK BALLOT – EPISODE 18