Vote

Michigan Related Links

Please go to Mi.gov/vote and under the Voter Information section, the voter can enter their name, month and year of birth to confirm their registration status and voting location.  Once absentee ballots are issued, this same section can be used to confirm when your absentee ballot was sent and received by your clerk’s office.  This tool has a lot of information as shown below

KEY REASONS TO VOTE 
 
Here is a clip to help inform voters, especially young voters on why it is so important to vote.  It is an excellent civics lesson for all of us too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMALeR1i-FM
 
The Project 2025 Song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvQhTbCY4xc
Project 2025:
Summary of impact on African-Americans
https://Keysofopportunity.com/LLL3.html   
Schoolhouse Rock – I’m Just a Bill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgVKvqTItto
 
ChatBlackGPT to the question “Why should I vote?” 
Voting is a powerful tool for shaping the future of your community, your country, and even the world. From a Black perspective, voting carries an especially deep significance because of the long struggle for the right to vote—a struggle that was met with violence, systemic barriers, and deliberate disenfranchisement.
During slavery, Black people were denied the right to participate in any form of political process. After the Civil War, during Reconstruction, Black men were granted the right to vote by the 15th Amendment in 1870, but this right was constantly undermined through Jim Crow laws, poll taxes, literacy tests, and violent intimidation by groups like the Ku Klux Klan. It wasn’t until the Civil Rights Movement and the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that significant progress was made in protecting Black voters.
When you vote, you honor the memory of those who fought for the right to participate in democracy—from Frederick Douglass to Fannie Lou Hamer, from those who marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to the countless unnamed ancestors who risked their lives to demand justice and equality.
Additionally, voting is a way to influence policies that directly affect the Black community—whether it’s criminal justice reform, education, housing, healthcare, or economic opportunities. Voting allows you to choose leaders who will be held accountable for addressing systemic racism and creating pathways toward equity.
If you want to dive deeper into this, check out books like “Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America” by Ari Berman, or “One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy” by Carol Anderson, which examine the history and ongoing issues related to Black voting rights.    
  
Here is an article and a list of companies that are rolling back their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs(DEI): McDonald’s, Walmart, Ford, Lowe’s, Amazon, and Meta. 

https://apnews.com/article/diversity-dei-goals-companies-lawsuits-eb052e0b420824485041263b7df1f715