Oct 12, 2026 | Church, Voting
With less than a month before the midterm elections, Black churches are boosting their efforts to get voters to the polls, using new outreach methods like postcard writing campaigns, multistate tours, weekday rallies and other strategies to get their congregants and...
Oct 5, 2026 | Voting, Women
The Highland Project, in partnership with brilliant corners Research & Strategies, unveiled the new data, dubbed “The Fulfillment Gap.” The survey, conducted between Aug. 30 and Sept.10, polled 700 African-American women, just a few weeks ahead of the midterms....
Sep 14, 2026 | HBCU, Politics, Voting
When the leaky roof of her crumbling New Orleans high school left rain-drenched students huddled in moldy classrooms, Alaina Zelaya helped rally her community to demand improvements to school facilities. Now a junior at Tuskegee University in Alabama, Zelaya is...
Aug 31, 2026 | Politics, Voting
Black leaders across the political and advocacy landscape are raising concerns after the U.S. Supreme Court moved toward clearing the way for the Trump administration to move forward with parts of its mail-voting executive order ahead of the midterm elections. The...
May 18, 2026 | Leadership, Voting, Women
Former Vice President Kamala Harris joined a cohort of Black women to rebuke the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority for its ruling two weeks ago that gutted the Voting Rights Act, setting off a wave of Republican-led states drawing out majority-Black districts...
May 4, 2026 | History, Voting
In a 6-3 decision Wednesday, the Supreme Court struck down Louisiana’s second majority-Black congressional district, ruling it an unconstitutional gerrymander. The ruling has significant implications for future applications of the Voting Rights Act (VRA), which...
