One activist group is hoping to turn moviegoers into voters with a new campaign aimed at fans of Black Panther. Dubbed #WakandaTheVote, the new effort by the Electoral Justice Project (EJP) has placed recruiters dressed in Wakanda-inspired costumes in movie theaters around the United States this weekend to share information on the importance of voting and how people can become registered to vote if they are not already.
An off-shoot of the Movement For Black Lives (MBL), the Electoral Justice Project was founded by Kayla Reed, Jessica Byrd and Rukia Lumumba in October 2017. Their primary goal is to develop stronger African American communities in order to better ...
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