Louisville Urban League, Local Orgs Work to Register, Turn Out Black Voters

The Louisville Urban League (Louisville, KY) and several nonprofit organizations announced efforts to increase Black voter turnout Friday as part of the first National Black Voter Day.

The National Urban League and BET announced the day as one piece of their "Reclaim Your Vote" campaign.

On Friday (Sept. 18), local leaders announced the creation of the Alberta Odell Jones Black Independent Black Voters Association, in honor of the local attorney and civil rights activist. The organization will host phone banks to contact 42,000 unregistered Black voters across Kentucky and the more than 100,000 ex-felons who regained their right to vote last year.

Louisville Urban League President and CEO Sadiqa Reynolds said her organization will release a series of PSAs to help voters understand their options and how to fill out an absentee ballot. The league is also making a push to get people to vote when early voting begins on Oct. 13.

"We're going to celebrate that first day of voting as if it is the last day of voting. We want a crowd," Reynolds said.

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