Black Voters Matter leader says go deeper for racial equity [Video]

Imagine an America without racism.

That was Black Voters Matter cofounder LaTosha Brown’s challenge during her keynote address at the Moving Delaware Forward Equity Action Summit on Thursday, April 18

Brown regularly appears on MSNBC and CNN when the topic of voting rights comes up. She and cofounder Cliff Albright started Black Voters Matter in 2016, an election year when 14 states implemented new voting restrictions.

Fighting voter suppression and anti-DEI activism hasn’t been easy, she said. But it’s moments like the last eight years when action is most needed.

“You don’t retreat,” Brown she said. “You actually go deeper.”

The summit was a free event for people already doing equity work through nonprofits, government agencies, education, enterprise, healthcare and media. Over the course of the two-day convening, hundreds of attendees spoke and heard about challenges like education access, migrant rights, healthcare inequity, employment for returning citizens, environmental justice, the housing crisis and generational trauma.

Imagining the country with …