{"id":1505,"date":"2018-02-19T13:57:58","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T18:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2018-06-20T12:22:38","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T12:22:38","slug":"wakandathevote-activists-organized-voter-registration-drives-black-panther-screenings-across-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wakandathevote-activists-organized-voter-registration-drives-black-panther-screenings-across-country\/","title":{"rendered":"#WakandaTheVote: Activists Organized Voter Registration Drives at \u2018Black Panther\u2019 Screenings Across The Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1509\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1509\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1509 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/wakanda.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/wakanda.jpg 800w, https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/wakanda-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/wakanda-768x528.jpg 768w, https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/wakanda-220x150.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1509\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: https:\/\/ejp.m4bl.org\/wakanda\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With the opening weekend of <em>Black Panther<\/em> projected to reach groundbreaking heights, the Electoral Justice Project recognized a great opportunity to help get citizens registered to vote at screenings across the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Back in October, Kayla Reed, Rukia Lumumba, and Jessica Byrd founded the Electoral Justice Project (EJP), a mission by the Movement for Black Lives. Today, the three activists are encouraging others to vote at <em>Black Panther<\/em> screenings, through what they refer to as #WakandaTheVote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis weekend we wanted to meet our people in Wakanda. We know that for some it&#8217;s a superhero world, but we know that the world we deserve is still waiting to be built \u2014 and we want to build it,\u201d Byrd and Reid told <a href=\"https:\/\/blavity.com\/exclusive-how-these-black-women-are-combining-black-panther-and-voter-registration-with-wakandathevote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blavity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>EJP\u2019s initiative has already inspired over 1,000 people to join their launch call, and the campaign has also encouraged similar voter registration drives throughout the country. The activists explain that they have achieved success because they meet communities where they are, \u201cwhether that\u2019s in the streets, at the city council meeting, or in the movie theater.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What a remarkable initiative! We\u2019re in full support of this mission and #WakandaTheVote. To learn more about the Electoral Justice Project, head over to <a href=\"https:\/\/ejp.m4bl.org\/wakanda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Movement for Black Lives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the opening weekend of Black Panther projected to reach groundbreaking heights, the Electoral Justice Project recognized a great opportunity to help get citizens registered to vote at screenings across the U.S. Back in October, Kayla Reed, Rukia Lumumba, and Jessica Byrd founded the Electoral Justice Project (EJP), a mission by the Movement for Black [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,176],"tags":[41,31,51],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film-tv","category-news","tag-black-panther","tag-featured","tag-trending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}