Black Women’s Roundtable
This is from a post at BlogHer by Laina D.
The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation’s Black Women’s Roundtable has received responses from a questionnaire that was given to all U.S. presidential candidates on issues directly affecting black women. The focus of the ten questions was on healthcare and economic opportunity. Receiving seven responses from six democrats and one republican, the purpose of the questionnaire was to determine how these candidates’ plans to close the economic and health disparities in the black community if they were to be elected.
The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation (NCBCP) is a national, non-profit organization that serves as a coalition for over 80 organizations and affiliations in 12 states whose purpose is to ‘address the disenfranchisement of Black Americans and other marginalized communities.’ The Black Women’s Roundtable (BWR) is one of the main programs of the NCBCP, whose focus is on promoting the unification of diverse voices of black women in order to promote heath, economic and social justice issues.
