Marc Morial: “Let the word go out that anyone who would like to be president of the United States in 2028, you’d better study this…”

D.C., for many Federal programs and initiatives, is treated like a territory, which denies the residents of the District of Columbia, including its black residents, equal treatment and therefore equal representation.

It is axiomatic that the right to vote is fundamental to American democracy.

Democracy is under a vigorous, vicious and sinister attack, beginning with the events of January 6 at the Capitol and cascading like a tsunami, through state legislatures across the nation.

We note the attacks on this progress. They come in the form of voter suppression – voter purges, attacks on democracy, attacks on equal opportunity in DE&I, banning of books, attacks to try to thwart this progress.