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Black voting power

Kenya Evelyn unpacks how a national crisis is leading Black Americans to demand more from the Democrats for their vote

2 June 2024

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    A Black pastor is preaching support for Trump – but can he win over voters?

    Darrell Scott, a Pentecostal minister from Cleveland, identifies himself as Trump’s ‘senior adviser’ – and has paid a high price for his allegiance

28 February 2024

  • Al Sharpton

    If we the Black voters ‘get loud’, neither the Tories nor Donald Trump will survive

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    On both sides of the Atlantic, populists are peddling racism. I’m in the UK to urge Black communities to see it for what it is, says civil rights leader Al Sharpton

7 December 2023

  • A state legislature votes in the statehouse.

    Georgia Republicans finalize district maps to comply with judge’s order

    Democrats, however, say new maps create a majority-Black district at the expense of another district, contrary to judge’s instruction

18 January 2023

  • Voting stickers lie in front of a sample ballot for the 2022 midterm elections at a polling location inside the St. Olivet Baptist Church in Columbus, Ohio.

    Ohio Republicans quietly enact ‘alarming’ new voting restrictions

    Law puts Ohio among states with strictest voter ID rules and will make it harder for elderly people, the disabled and the poor to vote

20 April 2022

  • Map of the northern Florida congressional districts proposed by governor Ron DeSantis.

    ‘A racist move’: Florida’s DeSantis threatens Black voter power with electoral maps

    Proposed map would chop up the fifth district into four new ones where Black voters would comprise a much smaller share of the vote – a visual guide

22 September 2021

  • Participants in a nationwide march for voting rights on the 58th anniversary of the March on Washington, 28 August 2021.

    Congress has a massive voting rights bill in its grasp. It must pass it, now

    Dennis Aftergut
    The Freedom to Vote Act rivals the 1965 Voting Rights Act as the greatest expansion of ballot access in our history

15 July 2021

  • Simon Woolley: ‘As kids, we knew racism. We saw the skinheads, and when we grew up, we fought the skinheads.’

    Black faces in high places: how Simon Woolley revolutionised British politics

    He set up Operation Black Vote in 1996, vastly increasing the number of Black MPs - and later this year becomes the first Black man to head an Oxbridge college

25 June 2021

  • Justice department sues state of Georgia over laws that 'deny the right to vote' – video

    The justice department is suing the state of Georgia over the new voting laws they say violate the Voting Rights Act and suppress Black Americans' right to vote

19 February 2021

  • Joe Biden takes part in a CNN town hall in Milwaukee

    Biden tackles white supremacy in town hall: Politics Weekly Extra

    As Joe Biden visited Milwaukee, Wisconsin this week, our guest presenter Kenya Evelyn spoke to the state representative David Bowen about the administration’s early obligations to Black voters

24 January 2021

  • Jamaica celebrates inauguration of US Vice President Kamala Harris<br>epa08954319 Island Dolls Company President Beverley Robatham-Reynolds poses with a poster congratulating US Vice President Kamala Harris, along with dolls and photos of Harris displayed at her street stall, in Kingston, Jamaica, 20 January 2021. Kamala Harris was sworn in as the first female US Vice President on 20 January 2021. Harris was born in Oakland, California to a mother from India and a father from Jamaica. EPA/Rudolph Brown

    'Immense sense of pride': Caribbean diaspora celebrates Kamala Harris

    Some hopeful vice-president could forward the fight for voting rights of the more than 4 million American citizens living in US territories who can’t vote

6 November 2020

  • Michigan Voters Visit The Polls For State's Primary Election<br>DETROIT, MI - AUGUST 04: Dylan Key, 7, of Detroit, leans against his mother, Nicole Key, as they wait in line for same-day voter registration outside of the City of Detroit Department of Elections during the Michigan Primary Election on August 4, 2020 in Detroit, Michigan. Among the candidates is U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) running against fellow Democrat and Detroit City Council President Brenda Jones. (Photo by Brittany Greeson/Getty Images)

    How Black voters lifted Biden's bid for the White House

    Black voters helped the Democrat win the nomination. Now they form the backbone of his support in key states like Wisconsin

3 November 2020

  • A picture of Kenya Evelyn in her graduation cap and gown with her Granny and the pearls that were a gift.

    Black women shed blood, sweat and tears to gain a voice. Granny, this vote is for you

    My grandmother, barred from voting for half her life, died two weeks ago. The sacrifices made by women like her led to this moment

28 October 2020

  • FILE - This combination of 2019 and 2017 photos shows Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson in Beverly Hills, Calif., left, and BIG3 League founder Ice Cube in New York. On Friday, Oct. 23, 2020, The Associated Press reported on a manipulated image circulating online incorrectly depicting them wearing hats that show support for President Donald Trump. The photo was altered to add a “Trump 2020” message to the hats. In the original photo, both rappers are wearing baseball caps with sports logos. (AP Photo)

    Ice Cube and 50 Cent highlight conservative faction among Black, male voters

  • Kentuckians Cast Their Ballots On First Day Of Early Voting<br>LOUISVILLE, KY - OCTOBER 13: Black Lives Matter protesters display their I VOTED wristbands after leaving the polling place at the KFC YUM! Center on October 13, 2020 in Louisville, Kentucky. Tuesday marked the first day of early in-person voting in Kentucky, which lasts through November 2. (Photo by Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

    The Black electorate could decide the 2020 election. Here's why

27 October 2020

  • Protester in Milwaukee. This is a scene from episode 1 of Kenya Evelyn's Black Voting Power series

    US election 2020: are Democrats taking black voters for granted in Wisconsin?

    The Guardian US reporter Kenya Evelyn grew up in Milwaukee, in the swing state of Wisconsin. She returned to see how this year’s pandemic, recession and Black Lives Matter protests are shifting the city’s politics

12 October 2020

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    ‘We’re going to lead this’: a call for Black women in Florida to claim their political power

    Amid protests and the coronavirus pandemic, Black women are rallying voters to demand ‘a seat at the table’

5 October 2020

  • How Covid is accelerating the fight for Black voting rights in the US – video

    Donald Trump’s election campaign in 2016 targeted nearly 3.5 million Black Americans to deter them from voting, and the battle for the right to vote is just as important in 2020. Kenya Evelyn travels to Florida where it's the Democrats' most loyal bloc, Black women, who are also bearing the brunt of the coronavirus outbreak

16 September 2020

  • Protester in Milwaukee. This is a scene from episode 1 of Kenya Evelyn's Black Voting Power series

    'Don't take Black voters for granted': Milwaukee leaders and activists warn Democrats

  • Black voting power: the fight for change in Milwaukee, one of America’s most segregated cities

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