Florida Democrats have a unity message. My question is simple: When will voters see the effort behind it, and when will our communities see the reward?
Browsing: A Message from The Publisher
Black Americans lived through Jim Crow and fought to make the ballot a right. Today, barriers can be harder to recognize: a polling place moves, a registration requirement changes, or a voter learns too late that the rules are different. Voting laws have changed in recent years, and polling locations can change between elections.
Welcome to Alcatraz, not merely the infamous prison that once stood in San Francisco Bay, but the state of mind now infecting our government.
How do we keep our young people involved? That question has stayed with me. Because maybe the problem is bigger than getting young folks to come to a park, put on a family T-shirt, eat some barbecue and pose for a picture.
It is time to stop playing around.
And there comes a time when people who have been pushed, divided, labeled, ignored, and taken for granted must stand up and say what the great civil rights warrior Fannie Lou Hamer told America more than half a century ago:
When Nobody Wants to Give Up the Chair, Who Is Listening to the People?
More than half a century ago, The Temptations put those words to music. It was 1970, but turn on the television, scroll through your phone, read the newspaper, or simply listen to the conversations around the kitchen table today, and you might wonder whether they were singing about 2026.
As students across Florida fill their backpacks, sharpen their pencils, and prepare for another school year, adults should be preparing for another important responsibility, the upcoming primary election.
As thousands of Omega men gather in Cincinnati, they do so during an election season that will influence the future of communities throughout America. The privilege to vote was not freely given. It was secured through generations of sacrifice, perseverance, and unwavering courage by men and women who believed that democracy fulfills its promise only when every eligible citizen participates.