The fight for equal access to the ballot goes hand-in-hand with Black history. That’s why this Black History Month, we’re celebrating people and organizations changing the culture around voting.
Grownish actor Yara Shahidi started Eighteenx18 when she was just 18-years-old to get young people fired up to make their voices heard and vote.
"We’ve been systematically left out of the conversation ... about how decisions are made. You know, we are a generation who’s known so much about voter suppression and gerrymandering, and known so much about how people actively don’t want us to vote."
— Yara Shahidi
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