How will Black voters impact 2024 election? Depends which generation you ask.

It’s no secret that Black Americans, particularly Black women, helped President Joe Biden secure a seat in the Oval Office nearly four years ago.  This year started out differently. More young Black men in America’s swing states say they plan to back Republican nominee Donald Trump. And Black voters – especially young Black voters – may have power in the election based on how they don’t vote. Yet, not voting can be viewed as a profound statement of apathy for Black Americans, given our painful and difficult history securing a safe and legal right to vote. I grew up in a household where I was taught it was imperative to vote – always. After all, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was enacted only seven years before I was firmly born a member of Generation X. My mother and aunt, from the deep South who migrated to the Midwest, remembered not having the right to vote. They remembered people who died for helping register Black voters.   But this year, polls showed a trend that would have made my mother and aunt shudder. More Black Americans are uncertain whether they’ll vote in the upcoming 2024 presidential election compared to 2020.  A...