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More than a Vote is a nonprofit organization fighting for African-Americans's voting rights, [1] as well as advocating criminal justice reform in the United States. [2] [3] It was founded in June 2020, amid the Black Lives Matter protests following the murders of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, by NBA basketball player LeBron James and other black athletes and entertainers.
Fair Fight Action has raised $6 million to support Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff in the Georgia Senate runoff elections that were held on January 5, 2021. Fair Fight Action works with the non-partisan VoteRiders [14] organization to spread state-specific information on voter ID requirements. Warnock and Ossoff both won their races ...
VoteRiders was founded in 2012 by Kathleen Unger, [16] an election integrity specialist, [17] [18] and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California. [19]To promote the cause of ballot access nationwide, VoteRiders has broadened its website to be a comprehensive portal for state-by-state information about voter ID requirements and has developed printable wallet cards that highlight the IDs ...
NAACP General Counsel Janette McCarthy-Wallace told ABC News in a statement that the nation’s oldest civil rights organization is fighting for free and fair elections in 10 legal battles across ...
Democracy Defenders PAC and Fair Fight, two Democratic PACs, plan to make a joint six-figure investment in battleground states to prepare for and fight voter suppression issues in November. In a ...
Holder weakened the Voting Rights Act, leading to a wave of voter suppression laws. At least 19 states, including Tennessee, passed voter ID laws and limited access to mail-in voting between 2020 ...
Black Voters Matter (BVM) is an American 501(c)(4) voting rights and community empowerment organization. BVM's stated purpose is "to increase power in our communities" by focusing on voter registration, getting out the vote, independent election-related expenditures, and organizational development & training for other grassroots groups.
Black women are gaining attention for their get-out-the-vote efforts, but Black Greek organizations have long been mobilizing voters to the polls. Black Greek organizations fight voter suppression ...