Netroots Nation 2022 — Day One — Opening Keynote: All Eyes on Pennsyvania
Netroots Nation 2022 kicked off Thursday with a lively keynote speech from a long list of electeds, advocates and activists in Pennsylvania politics. These speakers included state Senator Lindsey Williams, state Representative Sara Innamorato, state Representative Malcolm Kenyatta, state Representative Summer Lee, Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey, Philadelphia City Councilmember Helen Gym, The Impact Seat Foundation’s […]
W. Mondale Robinson Founder of The Black Male Voter Project
This week on WCLK’s The Local Take(Saturdays 8am), I reached out to the Black Male Voter Project. The Black Male Voter Project is a national organization that hopes to erase the voting gap between Black men and the overall voting population. Their only focus is on increasing voter turnout for Black men. Founder W. Robinson […]
Frustration is at an all-time high, behind Biden’s falling poll numbers
Up and Turn Out the Vote” concert on Dec. 30 in Atlanta. (Elijah Nouvelage for The Washington Post) ATLANTA — W. Mondale Robinson spent a large chunk of last fall in clubs and bars and concert venues in Georgia, trying to convince disenchanted Black men that casting a ballot — in the 2020 general election, then […]
Black Male Voter Project fighting to show political system that Black men’s vote is year-round effort
Fresh off the heels of the 2020 election cycle, Americans had the awakening of the importance of voting in both presidential and midterm elections; a trend that has been building over time. According to research conducted by The Brookings Institution, the November 2018 midterm elections for House of Representatives candidates had 115.1 million votes cast, […]
In Georgia, Democrats Desperately Need Jaded ‘Low Propensity’ Voters to Show Up
“While you have people debating the merits of the messaging of ‘defund the police,’ I wish they would shut up and help us knock on some doors.”Bakari Sellers, former South Carolina state representative Kara Turrentine, a Democratic strategist whose firm worked for Senator Bernie Sanders‘ campaign in Georgia and South Carolina doing direct mail and communications […]
With U.S Senate At Stake Black Voters Loom Large For Democratic Candidates In Georgia
ATLANTA (Reuters) – With hundreds of millions of dollars pouring into twin Jan. 5 Georgia runoff elections to determine control of the U.S. Senate, Democrats and a constellation of allies are waging an all-out campaign to mobilize as many Black voters as possible. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senate candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock speaks before the arrival […]
Getting More Black Men to the Polls
Mondale Robinson and his Black Male Voter Project are doing what legions of consultants and candidates couldn’t do. Out of roughly 250,000,000 voting-eligible Americans, only around half actually vote. For Black men, in particular, nearly half who are registered to vote have not gone to the polls in the past five consecutive elections. Many can’t […]
W. Mondale Robinson Wants to Help Black Men Believe in the Electoral Process Again
When I was a kid, I used to watch my father do amazing things for people all the time—he’d fix roofs, lay drywall, pour cement for entire driveways. We were extremely poor, and I could never understand why. I thought: My dad is an anomaly. How can you be so great as a person and still suffer […]