"Black women are aware that we can be the deciding factor this election," said Glynda C. Carr, President and CEO of Higher Heights Leadership Fund (Higher Heights). "We understand that this is the most consequential election of our time, for our communities, and for our country, and we know that we must vote as though our lives depended on it because they do."

Top factors energizing Black women to vote include protecting democracy and racial justice, with the majority of respondents attributing racism as the one main issue keeping them up at night. Black women also prioritized addressing the coronavirus crisis, affordable healthcare, and the economy as important issues to their demographic and to the overall Black community as they prepare to cast their ballots.

Some key findings from the poll include:

These findings are based on a survey of 506 likely 2020 Black women voters nationwide conducted between September 30 and October 4, 2020.

Read the full report of the poll results here.

About Higher HeightsHigher Heights is the only national organization exclusively dedicated to harnessing, organizing and mobilizing Black women's political power to elect Black women, influence leadership and advance progressive policy.

Through two entities, Higher Heights Leadership Fund, a 501(c)(3) organization and its sister organization Higher Heights for America, a national 501(c)(4) organization,, Higher Heights is investing in a long-term strategy to analyze, expand and support a Black women's leadership pipeline at all levels and strengthen their civic participation beyond Election Day.

For additional information, please visit blackwomenvote.com. Follow the #BlackWomenVoteconversation at @HigherHeights.

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SOURCE Higher Heights for America

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