America at 250: Imagining a New Democracy with LaTosha Brown of Black Voters Matters

As the our nation approaches its 250th anniversary, LaTosha Brown, organizer and Black Voters Matter co-founder, joins us to reflect on the unfinished struggle for democracy in the wake of the Supreme Court’s assault on the Voting Rights Act. She shares her thoughts on the enduring importance of the South, the lessons of Selma, and how people-powered organizing can meet this political moment with hope, courage, and vision. 

LaTosha also argues that this moment requires us to think bigger than this year’s midterms, or even the next election. Building a multiracial democracy will require more than electing better leaders—it will require reimagining the architecture of American democracy itself, she says.

She reminds us that our responsibility is not merely to defend democracy as we inherited it, but to build the democracy that has never yet fully existed.

REFERENCES:

LaTosha Brown – @mslatoshabrown // latoshabrown.com

Black Voters Matter – @BlackVotersMtr // blackvotersmatterfund.org