Black Voters Matter Announce 'We Fight Back' Campaign

Black Voters Matter Announce ‘We Fight Back’ Campaign

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Black Voters Matter (BVM), a voting rights group, is occurring a bus tour and organizing an thrilling marketing campaign to coach and empower Black voters forward of the 2024 election season.

On Jan. 16, BVM introduced the “We Battle Again” marketing campaign, a bus tour and three-day convention that may happen in Charleston, South Carolina — the placement of the nation’s first Democratic Major — from Thursday to Sunday. The nationwide voting rights group will unite with native activists, social justice advocates and HBCU college students to assist help Black voters earlier than election season begins. The occasion may even function a assume tank for attendees to return collectively and focus on points impacting Black communities nationwide.

Through the three-day occasion in Charleston, attendees will take part in Gen Z coaching, a voting rights city corridor and group canvassing. Members may even have the chance to voice their issues concerning the voting course of throughout an occasion geared toward understanding the wants and pursuits of South Carolina voters. An “uncut and uncensored” political hearth chat will comply with for younger voters. In response to BVM, the distinctive occasion is part of their “Take The Area” initiative launched in 2023, which goals to coach the youth concerning the energy of voting.

In an announcement, LaTosha Brown, the co-founder of BVM, stated that the “We Battle Again” marketing campaign is a response to the continued assaults on voting rights happening throughout the nation. She hopes that the vital initiative will uplift Black voters’ essential position within the upcoming election. At the moment, Black voters make up 50% of the Democratic main voters in South Carolina.

“All roads result in South Carolina as a result of we perceive how important this second is to the progress of the nation. That is the primary time {that a} Southern state with a 50% Black voters is positioned to paved the way within the early nominating course of,” LaTosha Brown stated.

“We imagine that Black voters are a key constituency in fixing democracy in this nation and we’re sending a transparent message that Black voters in rural and concrete areas will not be denied the vote – In 2024, We’re combating again in opposition to racist voter suppression techniques that hurt Black communities.”

This isn’t the primary time BVM has toured nationwide to create change.

In March 2023, the voting rights group traveled all the way down to Houston with TJC on their standard tour bus throughout the HBCU All-Star Recreation to coach school college students on essential voting points. The unbelievable occasion was full of pupil panel discussions and engagement occasions, highlighting matters akin to psychological well being, police violence, pupil mortgage debt and voter suppression.

In 2021, the trendy voting rights group hit the street for a “Freedom Trip” bus tour to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the unique Freedom Trip and to lift consciousness about voting rights. Organized simply in time for Juneteenth, the BVM tour started in New Orleans and made stops in Jackson, Mississippi, and Birmingham, Alabama.