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What You Need to Know:
“It happened in Georgia, it can happen in Texas.” Those are the words, and perhaps a promise, from the Black Voters Matter organization as Cliff Albright spoke before his east Texas audiences. The Black Voters Matter co-founder knows whereof he speaks and the voter empowerment group has the receipts to prove it.
What You Need to Know joined Black Voters Matter on the “Blackest Bus in America” as they led a caravan throughout east Texas in advance of the critical elections, local and statewide.
Black Voters Matter co-founders Cliff Albright and LaTosha Brown are leading this generation’s activists and by association, those in the next, in the fight against the old school war to suppress and deny. Their roots run deep in the Civil Rights community. From their days in historic Selma, Alabama, including local and statewide campaigns in Alabama to encouraging financial empowerment, LaTosha and Cliff continue bringing their passions and messages of empowerment to the disenfranchised in states from the South to the North and all points in between.
The messages were clear during the day four-day trip through east Texas, the Blackest Bus in America, also known as “The Freedom Ride,” emblazoned with booking photos from history’s civil rights pioneers. That message: “These soldiers gave their lives to empower you. Voters, you have the power, you must use it.”
Voting challenges, including voter suppression and gerrymandering, may never fully go away in Georgia, in Texas, in this country in our lifetimes, but Black Voters Matter won’t go away either.
Look for the Blackest Bus in America, cranking out the Blackest and most positive tunes, on the road today to college campuses in Beaumont, TX and Houston.
