Visibility is on the ballot
The Brown Girls Guide to Politics
Acast Creative Studios
3.3 • 845 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Higher Heights for America is a political action committee dedicated to getting more Black women elected at all levels.
RUN AAPI is an organization dedicated to reaching out to young Asian American and Pacific Islander voters.
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. Welcome back, Brown Girls. I'm Ashanti Dolar, the founder of the Brown Girls Guide to Politics. |
| 0:57.6 | Welcome to another episode of Season 5 of the podcast. This episode is all about women of color on the ballot and the power of our voice and our vote. |
| 1:08.8 | This year is the centennial of the women's suffrage movement, |
| 1:12.5 | which saw the 19th Amendment ratified to the Constitution, |
| 1:16.5 | giving women the right to vote. |
| 1:18.1 | It took George Washington six years to rectify men's grievances by war, |
| 1:25.5 | but it took 72 years to establish women's rights by law. |
| 1:31.3 | But we know it only granted some women the right to vote. Black Brown and Indigenous |
| 1:37.1 | Women's Right to Vote came in 1965 and after. Mr. Chairman and to to the credentials committee, my name is Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer. |
| 1:51.0 | It was the 31st of August in 1962 that 18 of us traveled 26 miles to the county courthouse in Indianola to try to register to become |
| 2:05.3 | first-class citizens. We was met in Indianola by policemen, highway patrolmen, and they only |
| 2:15.9 | allowed two of us in to take the literacy test at the time. |
| 2:22.1 | This has had a direct result on women of color's representation in government. |
| 2:27.9 | 2020 is another year where black, brown, and indigenous women are running and leading |
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