Who Gets To Belong?

To Urban Radio, and to those speaking to the black community

What does it mean to be a citizen in this country? Who gets to decide who belongs? On August 6, the Trump administration issued two new executive orders targeting birthright citizenship, just weeks after the Supreme Court rejected its broader attempt to end birthright citizenship.

The administration is pursuing a narrower strategy, but the fight over who gets to claim citizenship continues. Donate today to help Black Voters Matter keep our communities informed, engaged, and ready to organize as this fight unfolds.

For Black communities, questions about citizenship, rights, and belonging carry generations of history. Black people have spent generations fighting to be recognized as full participants in American democracy. We have organized for voting rights, equal protection, economic opportunity, and the ability to shape the decisions affecting our communities.

Birthright citizenship is rooted in the Fourteenth Amendment’s promise that people born in the United States are citizens. The current fight raises larger questions about our democracy:

What should the Constitution protect? Who should it serve? What kind of country do we want to build?

Those questions require political education. People need information they can use to understand how government works, who holds power, how policies affect their communities, and how they can take action.

Donate to Support Black Voters Matter

That is the work behind ‘We Got Us’. Black communities have always pushed this country to live up to its promises. Today, we are continuing that work by creating spaces for people to learn, organize, ask hard questions, and build collective power.

Your support helps bring political education into communities, connect people with information about the decisions affecting their lives, and build the relationships that strengthen civic participation and organizing. The future of our democracy will be shaped by people who understand their power and use it together.

Donate today to help Black Voters Matter continue building that power in communities across the country.