Hazel Trice Edney, NNPA Editor-in-Chief
In one of the most historical political election seasons, organizers of African-American voters across the nation – still starkly divided between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton – are now working to mobilize Black voters to vote in primaries, regardless of who they support.
“We are blending the best parts of traditional civil rights get-out-to-vote operations with newer technology,” says Kirk Clay, organizer for PowerPAC, a non-profit social justice advocacy group, which is organizing get out to vote (GOTV) rallies and pit stops in states around the country. “When you’re dealing in the primary election, you’re looking for those pockets of places where African-Americans are more prone to turn out and vote in higher numbers,” Clay says.
