The Disregarded Canary: On the Plight of Black Women Voters
“De nigger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see.” – Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God In American politics the Black woman voter is both mule and canary. Black women vote at higher rates than most demographics, and overwhelmingly and consistently vote for Democratic candidates—not because there is anything to gain but because doing so is necessary for the survival of the republic. Yet, two years after commentators declared 2018 to be…