Authors & Essays

When you spend three decades in front of a camera you get used to people looking at you. You get used to the bright lights and the teleprompters and the controlled chaos of a live television studio. But nothing prepares you for what happened to me earlier this year in Los Angeles.

These are challenging times here in America. As we approach the 250th year of the nation’s founding, our democracy, our freedoms and our very way of life are all under assault.

We are facing an all-out assault on Black life – Black liberty, livelihood, history, prosperity, economic power, and opportunity to fully participate in this democracy.

In a democracy under siege, the integrity of our institutions depends not only on who governs, but on how they govern.

Michelle Obama founded When We All Vote in 2018 to increase participation in each and every election, change the culture around voting, close the race and age voting gaps, and fight against voter suppression. Seven years later, our fight continues.