These are challenging times here in America. As we approach the 250th year of the nation’s founding, our democracy, our freedoms and our very way of life are all under assault.

We are facing an all-out assault on Black life – Black liberty, livelihood, history, prosperity, economic power, and opportunity to fully participate in this democracy.

In a democracy under siege, the integrity of our institutions depends not only on who governs, but on how they govern.

Michelle Obama founded When We All Vote in 2018 to increase participation in each and every election, change the culture around voting, close the race and age voting gaps, and fight against voter suppression. Seven years later, our fight continues.

Following the historic election of President Barack Obama, the illusion that racism had vanished – that the Civil Rights Movement had accomplished its righteous ends – blanketed many Americans with a warm, false sense of equality and security.