The morning after Black voters propelled Democrats to two Senate runoff victories in Georgia, BlackPAC Executive Director Adrianne Shropshire was signing off on an invoice for polling on Black voters in the 2021 Virginia governor’s race — the organization’s next target. After mobilizing Black voters in the 2020 cycle, particularly in rural areas, Black women […]
read moreBy the end of election week in November, Democrats’ hopes of winning a sizable majority in the U.S. Senate had fallen apart. But the party’s operatives had already started developing their plan to squeeze out enough seats to win control. Losses in Maine and North Carolina meant Democrats needed to sweep two runoff races in […]
read moreRepublicans and Democrats have concluded that the outcome of two runoff races here, which will determine control of the Senate, may well hinge on how their supporters reacted to November’s presidential result. Both sides have reason for concern. Republicans worry that disillusioned backers of President Trump, convinced the system is rigged against them, in large […]
read moreBlackPAC on Thursday announced its inaugural batch of Senate race endorsements, as this year’s election cycle enters the home stretch. The left-leaning political group that focuses on engaging and mobilizing Black voters across the country endorsed Democrats in four Senate races in key battleground states: Sen. Gary Peters (Mich.), Cal Cunningham in North Carolina, and Jon Ossoff […]
read moreBy Gwen McKinney (October 6, 1917 – March 14, 1977)When Tennessee approved the 19th Amendment on August 18, 1920, it was the culmination of the long march to women’s suffrage. Full citizenship and voting rights would become exclusive for some American women and doggedly elusive for many others. The year that amendment was ratified, a […]
read moreBy Dr. Kerry Mitchell Brown The direction and future of this country — and with it the direction and future of Black people — will be determined by significant elections, at the national, state, and local levels, in the coming months and over the next series of years. We have the power to determine our […]
read moreBy Cryshanna A. Jackson Leftwich, PhD “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness (Declaration of Independence).” July 4, 1776, marked the day that America declared its freedom […]
read moreEverything about the 2016 presidential election (and the periods leading up to it) through this very day tells us that any sustainable progress for Black people remains at risk and under attack. We’ve all seen the data and continue to live in the reality that Black people, and other people of color, remain disproportionately impoverished, […]
read moreThe COVID-19 pandemic has wrought immense tragedy across our country, particularly for black Americans, who have faced a disproportionate rate of infection and mortality. The economic fallout could have generational implications. Yet in the face of this unimaginable crisis — which has left over 100,000 Americans dead and more than 30 million unemployed — Senate […]
read moreIn battleground state survey of Black voters, nearly 80% give Trump low marks on crisis and doubt his truthfulness on virus information Black voters feeling economic fallout of COVID-19: nearly 50% report lost jobs or hours A new poll of registered Black voters in key swing states commissioned by BlackPAC demonstrates widespread disapproval over President […]
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