Cofounder of the black voter matters organization, and shes here with us today to talk about the black voter and the 2020 elections. Louisiana dash shah latasha, good morning. Guest thank you for having me. Vo host first, tell us what the black Voters Matter Fund is. Guest the organization started in 2016 because we wanted to shift the dynamics around how we were hearing the National Media talk about black voters. More importantly, we wanted to build more power in our communities so we could have more influence on policies impacting us. So we started the back Voters Matter Fund because what we felt is that in order to really have a robust democracy, you have to have an edge gauged electorate. And engaged electorate. And we would do work to engage voters on the ground level, on the local level so that they should shape policies and representation for their communities. Host so wt did your organizing approach look like this year . What didin you do out on t ground to get mor black voters
For women, and why . Find it where you get your podcasts. Host we are back with Latasha Brown to talk about the black voter and the 2020 election. It morning. Guest good morning. Host tell us what the black Voters Matter Fund is. Organization an that was started in 2016 to shift the dynamics around. We wanted to build power and our communities so we could have influence on impact on policies. Because whate fund we felt is that in order to really have a robust democracy, you have to have an engaged electorate. We would engage voters on the local level to shift the policies for the communities. Host what did your organizing approach look like this year . What did you do on the ground to get more black voters to register and to show up and vote . Guest we did not start this year. We started in 2016. We think that what happens is oftentimes in the black community you see people come around election time. Its like if you have a friend that only calls when they want something, youre not exci
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We were hearing the National Media talk about black folks. Vote but more importantly we wanted to build power in our community so we could have impact on policies that were impacting us. So we started black voters find and black in order to have a really robust democracy you have to do work to engage voters on the ground level, on the local level so that they could chip the policies, and take a chip representation for the communities. Why did your organizing approach look like this year . With did you do at on the ground to get more black voters to not only register, but the show up and vote. A couple of things. When we did start this, year we started into thousand 16 and we never stopped. One of our things is cant, stop wont stop. Oftentimes in the black community you often see people come around election time, right, and its not like if a friend who only close when they want something, you never excited to see them. But for us the way that we felt we would build power is that we woul
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