Global Black Economic Forum and Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Lawfully Announce Partnership to Increase Black Voter Participation in 2024.

As the pivotal 2024 elections approach, the urgency to protect voting freedom and increase Black voter participation is very critical. The recent partnership between Global Black Economic Forum and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights is a testament to the urgency of this issue. Instead of just encouraging our community to vote, we deal with a broader vision of civic engagement, voter participation, voter education and election protection.

The Global Black Economic Forum will join the Lawyers Committee’s Voter Protection Coalition, the nation’s largest nonpartisan voter protection initiative, bringing together greater than 300 organizations as coalition members from across the country.

Throughout the election cycle, Election Protection volunteers provide voters with critical information, document issues voters experience while voting, and work with partners to remove barriers to voting. We will likely be recruiting volunteers to join the prevailing nationwide Election Protection infrastructure for training and deployment. Both organizations will prioritize keeping volunteers engaged throughout the election season by amplifying the crucial contributions of Black people, and especially Black women, to protecting democracy.

Voting is crucial in the whole lot we all know – exercising our constitutional rights, protecting democracy, electing representatives to advance and protect our individual and collective interests. However, voting is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to creating and changing the foundations and laws that govern us.

Comprehensive voter education is crucial to creating an informed electorate that understands the problems that matter, the role of elected offices beyond the Presidency and Congress, and the impact that voting can have on changing our day by day lives. This education is critical as misinformation and disinformation campaigns increasingly goal the Black community to encourage political apathy.

Likewise, election protection efforts are essential to protecting the integrity of our votes. If we encourage people to vote, we must do the whole lot we are able to to ensure every vote is counted. Unfortunately, the concept of ​​“one person, one vote” is under attack by right-wing extremists who’ve a vested interest in silencing black voters.

Fundamentally, the partnership between the Black World Economic Forum and the Lawyers’ Committee is designed to protect our freedoms. The freedom to vote is an element of the inspiration of our freedom to live, achieve and care for our families. The policies and leaders we elect and support ultimately influence how we move through the world, our access to health care, and even whether our history is an element of what our youngsters learn in schools. As attacks on our freedoms intensify, the stakes are high and our decisions this yr will shape our future for generations to come.

This yr on the ESSENCE 2024 Cultural Festival, the Black World Economic Forum and the Committee of Lawyers will equip our participants in person and virtually with the tools to support Black political power in the 2024 election cycle. We must make the case for participating in our democracy with recent ideas and energy that may spark renewed enthusiasm for democracy.

It will take everyone to construct a coalition committed to ensuring a just, equitable and prosperous future for the Black community. Are you ready to join us?