City Clerk Stephanie Mendoza discussed the importance of involving underrepresented voting blocs in grassroots, political organizing at a Tuesday Indivisible Evanston panel.
“Representation matters,” Mendoza said. “The best way to create new organizers is to just simply give people the opportunity and teach them.”
The event was hosted by the Evanston branch of grassroots organization Indivisible, which uplifts progressive legislation through member meetings, phone banking and letter writing campaigns.
The branch’s co-leaders, Rosie Rees and Candace Davis, moderated the event, which focused on best practices for mobilizing residents, especially those from marginalized communities, to vote in the 2022 Congressional midterm elections.
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Her name is Candy and she is suitably sweet.
We welcomed her to our home April 21 and very quickly concluded that she was a keeper.
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Only a week later halfway through what was supposed to be a foster-dog fortnight we adopted Candy from the Regina Humane Society.
Candy’s return to the animal shelter for the transfer of ownership was more like a reunion. Various staffers cooed over a genial growler who had arrived April 8, having been rescued from a situation that was “less than ideal,” according to RHS lifesaving co-ordinator Candace Davis.
The Salem City High schooler didn t learn the story at school.
It s a piece of Black history passed to her dad Walter Hudson at his barbershop, then told to Heavenlee at home.
African American studies are electives in many of New Jersey s public high schools.
As the state s youngest race equity activists awakened last summer to re-energize movements, Black high schoolers say they re thirsty for more on African Americans contributions to the United States.
And they think their classmates of every color should learn those stories, too. Every race, every culture has contributed something important to our (American) history, said Cherry Hill East High School senior Machayla Randall.