Kamala Harris & Beyoncé Say: Get in Formation and Vote for Freedom

“Black Vote, Black Power,” a collaboration between Keith Boykin and Word In Black, examines the issues, the candidates, and what’s at stake for Black America in the 2024 presidential election. HOUSTON – They say everything is bigger in Texas, and Kamala Harris’s huge rally in Houston Friday night was no exception. With just over a week to go in the election, Harris came to the Lone Star State and accomplished three goals. 1. Exposing the Human Cost of Abortion Bans First, she exposed the danger of the Trump abortion bans that threaten the lives of women and re-centered reproductive rights as an issue in the final days of the campaign. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) Ondrea Cummings of San Antonio told the crowd of 30,000 people that when she discovered her pregnancy was not viable, she was given no options to protect her own health. “Because of Texas’s extreme laws, I was told I had to wait,” she said. Watching the tearful Cummings tell her story of being diagnosed with sepsis and surviving a partial lung collapse reminds us that abortion is not some abstract academic issue for debate. These are real life...