ELECTION RESOURCES
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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
J. Janice Coleman, an English professor at Alcorn State University, has sewn several quilts honoring Black women, including one of Toni Morrison.
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
The policy will require companies to make it just as easy for you to cancel your subscription as it was to start it in the first place.
The firing is the latest effort by President Donald Trump to take control of elections and sow doubt in any electoral outcome that doesn’t go his way.
Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, 84, has spent three weeks in the hospital and hasn't been present for a congressional vote since June 11.
Former Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner won the Democratic nomination in a landslide despite mounting controversies throughout his campaign.
Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of Manhattan federal court cited the Supreme Court’s June 29 order, which denied Trump’s request for the court to review the case.
THE BLACK BALLOT – EPISODE 18