Summary: We get a history lesson on Black women's power at the voting booth and kick-off our new #SistasToWatch segment profiling Black women running for office with <a href="http://www.higherheightsforamerica.org/our_leadership">Glynda Carr</a> and <a href="http://www.higherheightsforamerica.org/our_leadership">Kimberly Peeler-Allen</a>, co-founders of <a href="http://www.higherheightsforamerica.org/">Higher Heights for America</a>. <br> <br> Today’s lesson is about Black women’s vote power in America beginning with their voter registration efforts immediately after the passage of the 19th Amendment. L. Joy uses an excerpt from <a href="https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/civil-rights/crisis/0300-crisis-v21n05-w125.pdf">The Crisis Vol. 21 No 5. March 1921</a> to show that Black women’s political might at the ballot box is not new and neither is the efforts of voter suppression.<br> <br> Guest Interview I: <a href="https://twitter.com/glyndacarr?lang=en">Glynda Carr</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/kimberp_a?lang=en">Kimberly Peeler-Allen</a> share how Higher Heights is an organization which focuses on electing Black women, telling us of the multitude of initiatives and programs they have from <a href="http://blackwomenvote.com/">#BlackWomenVote</a>, to <a href="http://www.higherheightsforamerica.org/building_a_blackwomenlead_nation">#BlackWomenLead</a> and how you can <a href="https://higherheightsforamerica.nationbuilder.com/forms/user_sessions/new">get involved</a>.<br> <br> Guest Interview II: <a href="https://staceyabrams.com/">Stacey Abrams</a>, Democratic Candidate for Governor in Georgia shares her #FirstCivicAction, a first civic memory with her parents and how it shaped her life.
