Perspectives: Across the Region
What's at Stake?
Higher Heights #BlackWomenLead Get Out The Vote Bus Tour
By Glynda Carr, Co-founder, President, and CEO of Higher Heights for America
Higher Heights for America is at the helm of the national movement to increase Black women’s political power. As founder of the #BlackWomenLead movement and the #BlackWomenVote campaign, Higher Heights equips Black women with the tools to lead from the voting booth to elected office. From our nation’s capital to California, we have been on the ground ensuring Black women are ready to run, win, and LEAD. This October, we launched our #BlackWomenLead Get Out The Vote Bus Tour, energizing communities with stops in New York and Pennsylvania to Delaware and Detroit. Our #BlackWomenLead volunteers have written over 500 postcards, made over 10,000 calls, and knocked on 450+ doors. We are driving up voter turnout and making sure our voices are heard in this historic election. We understand our lives and futures are at stake–Education, Reproductive Freedom, Voting Rights and more. Higher Heights empowering all Black women to harness their political power and lead their communities to vote, run, and WIN!
Introducing the North Atlantic Representative to the International Connection and Social Action Committee
Soror Lauren Underwood
U.S. House of Representatives (IL-14)
I am Congresswoman Lauren Underwood, serving as the North Atlantic Representative to the International Connection and Social Action Committee and a proud member of Xi Omega Chapter located in the nation's capital.
Every four years we are reminded that women will decide the fate of the general election. Women are the largest group of registered voters and turn out in the highest numbers at the ballot box.
We have less than two weeks until one of our country's most historic and consequential elections, sorors!
This political power dates back to the advocacy and mobilization of Black women from our founders’ generation. Let us draw inspiration from our foremothers and galvanize towards November 5th.
What is at stake for you, your family, and your community? Reproductive Freedom? Education? Healthcare Affordability? Voting Rights? Everything is on the ballot. Our lives are at stake on the line in this election.
As the North Atlantic Region’s Representative to the International Connection and Social Action Committee, I encourage sorors to make their voting plans and soar to the polls with at least FOUR people from their communities.
Living Legend Soror Evelyn Sample-Oates 31st North Atlantic Regional Director
