The Impact of Black Voters: “When We Show Up, We Transform How Power Operates”

When it comes to elections there’s always a key voting bloc that gets the media attention. If candidate X wins the FILL IN THE BLANK they’ll win the election. Over the past few years, we’ve heard a lot about the Latino vote. The white working class vote. The suburban women vote. But a core constituency of the Democratic electorate, since Barack Obama was elected has not gotten the same level of attention: African Americans. Will this change before 2020? According to the strategists we talked to, if Democrats want to win back the White House, it better. Guests: Alicia Garza, a founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network, and the head of the Black Futures Lab Bakari Sellers, former South Carolina state representative and a CNN contributor Thelisha Eaddy, South Carolina Public Radio reporter Theodore  R. Johnson, Senior Fellow at the Brennan Center Aimee Allison, founder of She the People