Uplifting the Black Vote with LaTosha Brown

The Brown Girls Guide to Politics

Acast Creative Studios

Women Of Color, Black Women, Politics, Society & Culture, News, Women In Politics

3.3 • 845 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

It’s election day: the time to exercise our constitutional right to vote. While it should be simple to cast a ballot, it's often not. And that’s not by accident. The Black vote has never truly been protected, and many states are passing new legislation to actively suppress Black votes. In BGG’s Season 9 finale, A’shanti welcomes back previous guest LaTosha Brown, the co-founder of the Black Voters Matter Fund. Together, they lay out the various forces at play in our country that contribute to voter suppression, and discuss why building political power and embracing community is so vital when it comes to turning the political tides.

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The Brown Girls Guide to Politics Podcast is all about amplifying the voices of women who are too often forgotten in media coverage. Host A’shanti Gholar leads conversations with women changing the face of politics. In the BGG to Politics blog, A’shanti created a space for women of color to learn about the current state of politics, to support others breaking into the political sphere, and to celebrate incredible women changing the course of the country. A’shanti founded the blog in 2018 and Wonder Media Network is thrilled to extend her platform to audio.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all. I'm Ashanti Golar, host of the Brown Girls Guide to Politics.
0:05.1	The BGG is the one-stop shop for women of color who want to talk and shape the world of politics.
0:12.9	This season, we're getting deep into the details of Project 2025.
0:18.7	In 900-plus pages, it's proposing dramatic conservative changes to education,
0:24.3	health care, and foreign affairs. But underpinning it all is an entirely new vision for how
0:31.1	the government operates, and that could change everything. Thank you so much to our friends
0:37.2	at Way to Win for supporting us
0:39.0	and making this season possible. Listen to the Brown Girls Guide to Politics wherever you get
0:44.8	your podcast. Hey BGG listeners.
0:56.5	We want to take a minute to tell you about future hindsight, a podcast that takes big ideas
1:03.3	about civic life and democracy and turns them into action items that all of us can do.
1:10.3	It's election day, and voters are deciding the balance of power in Congress for the next two years.
1:17.9	And democracy itself feels like it's on the ballot.
1:22.1	Future hindsight will help you think about the future well beyond the horse race. Host Mila Atmos has compelling conversations
1:30.3	with public servants, activists, journalists, and more. Together, they tell the story about your
1:38.4	power and agency in the future of this American experiment. You'll always get a dose of hope and inspiration on how you can get involved.
1:49.3	Future Hindsight is a weekly podcast.
1:52.4	You can listen on your favorite app or on future hindsight.com.
2:12.6	Hey, brown girls, it's Ashanti, host of the Brown Girls Guide to Politics.
2:18.7	Here we are at the grand finale of yet another season of the BG.
2:27.2	But as always, engaging with the issues we've been talking about doesn't end at the end of this episode.
2:33.6	You've got to make sure you can actually act on all of the incredible conversations we've been having, and since today is election day,
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