Inspiring Activism
In case you were wondering, this is what we do. The Atlanta Post featured our executive director, Biko Baker in this video:
For more on what we do, check out YoungVoter.org.
In case you were wondering, this is what we do. The Atlanta Post featured our executive director, Biko Baker in this video:
For more on what we do, check out YoungVoter.org.
Missed last night’s unfiltered conversation on Trayvon Martin and race in America? Watch it now >> Fast forward to 20:00 to start the panel. Video streaming by Ustream
“Rebirth of a Nation: The Black Image in the American Mind,” the latest in the #RapSessions series will be live YoungVoterLive.com on Tuesday from 7-10 ET. From entertainment and politics to the media images that accompany them, the civil-rights era idea of “Blackness” is currently in flux. A panel of leading national experts will explore contemporary moments [...]
Join us tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern for a live streaming panel discussion on YoungVoterLive.com from the University of Southern Indiana, Evansville. Panelists include our own Biko Baker (executive director at the League), Jasiri X (hip-hop artist/ activist), Rosa Clemente (2008 Green Party vice-presidential candidate) and Adam Mansbach (author of Angry Black White Boy). The panel will be moderated [...]
In 2008, community activists struggled to be heard as the noise from the presidential race convinced voters that the fate of our nation lay in a battle between two juggernauts, and that non-partisan organizing, once the back-bone of our democracy, had become superfluous. Fast forward four years, and everything has changed. Seeing our hijacked democracy [...]
We’ve got 50 percent unemployment for young people ages 18-24. The jobs crisis has driven our friends and family without an occupation to #Occupy cities across the country. It’s time to stand up for legislation that will jump-start the economy and get kids off the street and back to work!
[...] League of Young Voters is keeping Tupac’s vision alive by organizing and getting youth invested in their communities from Wisconsin, Georgia , Texas , Ohio, California, New York and Maine. The League is about [...]