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“Student debt is both a cause and a consequence of the racial wealth gap."

In record numbers and in the face of a global pandemic, Americans voted early and on Election Day, and availed themselves of mail-in voting. But the right to vote includes the right to have your vote counted.

For what feels like the first time in years, we can pause for the briefest of moments and breathe.

“This is a microcosm of many intra-progressive, intra-left policy debates—whether it’s better to do something universal and achieve something with relative ease or ensure that only those struggling by some definition get relief."

American democracy wasn't functioning well for many Americans before this election. Sure, it's working well as it was designed by our all-white, all-male founding fathers — to protect white political power — but it's still failing Black and brown people.

We need to continue to demand a government committed to protecting Black and brown communities in this moment, and need to continue to push for bold, transformative change.

This year, as we attempt to keep our loved ones safe during a deadly pandemic, more people in our communities will be voting by mail (absentee) than ever before. Counting those votes will take time.

A recent report by the national think tank Demos recommended jail staff take additional steps to ensure people are not disenfranchised because they are in jail.

We should think of November 3rd as merely the first of many days of electoral uncertainty while states count every vote. And that is okay.

Voting has always been one of the most powerful tools of a justice-seeking people determined to defeat oppression and its propagators.