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Senate’s toned-down voting bill fails to stop backlash
Senate's toned- down voting bill fails to stop backlash from election officials and voting rights groups Republican state lawmakers are...
Apr 14, 20213 min read


Concerns Over Election Legislation
Source: CBS (Orlando)
Mar 25, 20211 min read


FL-Gov: St. Pete Poll Shows A Toss Up Race With Ron DeSantis (R) & Nikki Fried (D) At 45-45
Here’s some big news out of Florida: Should Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried run for Florida Governor, she starts in a statistical...
Mar 25, 20215 min read


Central Florida pastors say ballot box bill could hurt minorities
Senate Bill 90 is still currently in the rules committee ORLANDO, Fla. – Central Florida pastors are pushing for lawmakers to reject a...
Mar 25, 20212 min read


Florida Pastors Protest
Source: ABC (Ft. Meyers)
Mar 25, 20211 min read


Florida’s Leading Pastors to Join Equal Ground ActionFund
MEDIA ADVISORY FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Andrew Feldman, Andrew@feldmanstrategies.com, 781-820-6650 Florida’s Leading Pastors to...
Mar 24, 20212 min read


Nikki Fried, Black pastors call voter bills racist, voter suppression
Proposed voting changes would restrict mail ballot drop boxes, among other provisions. Bills to restrict vote-by-mail and tighten other...
Mar 24, 20213 min read


‘This is racism’: Black pastors decry proposed changes to Florida voting laws
Black clergy and civil rights leaders from across the state are joining together in Tallahassee to oppose a bill they view as the latest...
Mar 24, 20213 min read


Black Community Leaders Call Proposed Drop-Box Ban an Attack on Their Vote
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — There’s an organized effort to fight a proposed Florida Senate bill that would ban drop boxes for mail-in ballots...
Mar 23, 20212 min read


‘Suppression’ or ‘security’? Uproar over Florida GOP’s ‘rollback of voting rights’
TALLAHASSEE - Four months ago, Gov. Ron DeSantis bragged that other states should emulate voting procedures in Florida, where former...
Mar 15, 20213 min read


Overcoming Vaccine Disparities In Central Florida
Vaccinations are more widely available now as more people become eligible, but there are still disparities in distribution. Some of the...
Mar 10, 20212 min read


Orlando groups canvasing, busing seniors to vaccination sites
Seniors at Magnolia Points Apartments will get free ride to vaccine site next ORLANDO, Fla. – Orlando Commissioner Regina Hill has been...
Mar 10, 20212 min read


New partnership to help schedule, transport seniors in west Orlando to vaccine appointments
ORLANDO, Fla. – Orlando City Commissioner Regina Hill and Commissioner Robert Stuart announced a new partnership Friday to provide more...
Feb 26, 20212 min read


Equal Ground Education offers legislative session training to mobilize Black Floridians, Feb. 16 & 1
BY J.A. JONES, Staff Writer The Equal Ground Education Fund (EGEF) is a non-partisan non-profit focused on building Black political power...
Feb 15, 20213 min read


Equal Ground Education offers legislative session training to mobilize Black Floridians, Feb. 16 & 1
BY J.A. JONES, Staff Writer The Equal Ground Education Fund (EGEF) is a non-partisan non-profit focused on building Black political power...
Feb 15, 20213 min read


Black churches’ Souls to the Polls efforts, even during COVID-19, aim to boost voter turnout
DETROIT — On a bitterly cold and gray afternoon, Bishop Charles H. Ellis III led dozens of his parishioners in a march around his...
Oct 31, 20203 min read


Last-minute weekend push by Dems, GOP rallies Escambia County citizens to vote
Across the United States, representatives of both major political parties scrambled to persuade voters to turnout and pledge last-minute...
Oct 31, 20204 min read


Souls to the Polls transporting voters in Jackson County
JACKSON COUNTY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - A massive Souls to the Polls event took place Saturday morning in Cottondale. Souls to the Polls is...
Oct 30, 20201 min read


Major Commitment to Have Vote-By-Mail Ballots "Cured" by Election Day in Florida
Floridians have been voting for over a month, but that comes to an end on Tuesday night at 7 p.m. As of Friday afternoon, more than 7.8...
Oct 29, 20203 min read


Group targeting Black, brown voters in Florida to make sure their votes count
The Coalition for Black and Brown Voter Access has fanned out across Leon, Gadsden, and Jefferson counties to increase voter turnout and...
Oct 29, 20204 min read
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