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
Virginia’s redistricting effort is somewhat of a Hail Mary, considering it has to pass twice through the Grand Assembly and be put to a public vote.
New Hampshire GOP Rep. Kristin Noble, chair of the New Hampshire House Education Policy Committee remarked that she wanted "segregated schools."
California voters approved Prop 50 last November, which implements a congressional map designed to neutralize Texas’ redistricting effort.
COVID-era subsidies for ACA insurance expired at the end of last year, drastically increasing monthly premiums for millions of Americans.
Several Republican state legislatures began rare, mid-decade redistricting campaigns over the last year to protect the GOP’s House majority.
THE BLACK BALLOT – EPISODE 18