Every vote, a prayer
I voted for the first time in my life when I was 30. It’s not that I didn’t want to before. It’s that I could not. I left my country when I was 16, and I did not become a … Continue reading Every vote, a prayer
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Highlights from “VANGUARD: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All”
Dr. Martha S. Jones’s book, Vanguard introduces us to hidden figures of American democracy. The sacredness of our vote is demonstrated by these women’s sacrificial quest for equality under the law. Black women had (and still have) a unique struggle … Continue reading Highlights from “VANGUARD: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All”
The Rights and Responsibilities of Voting
“…And your life doesn’t change by the man who’s elected.” This line from an Avett Brothers song released in 2009 called Head Full of Doubt hits me every time. Was there a time I unconsciously believed this? How many people … Continue reading The Rights and Responsibilities of Voting
Precious Lives:
The phrase that sounds like what all Americans should have heard in the first place when the cry came as a keening from the Black community. Continue reading Precious Lives:
Three-Fifths 