Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza has created a new initiative aimed at helping black communities achieve greater political power. “Coming out of the 2016 election there was a few things that became really clear,” she continued. “One, that black people deserve to have vehicles that represent the breadth of our interests. Their first initiative is the Black Census Project, which the group said is the first large survey focusing on black lives in America in more than 150 years. The project aims to capture the range of issues black people are facing in their lives ― something the U.S. Census is limited in doing.

Source: Huffington Post February 26, 2018 19:26 UTC