Check out my new blog post for Huffington Post. Below you will find an excerpt and link;
“In 2008 there was so much excitement surrounding the Presidential election it was contagious. For many, like myself it would be one of our first opportunities to vote for the United States highest office… President. As a 20-year-old, just started my second semester in college it turned into one of the biggest moments of my life.
There was, not only a black man in the race, but also a woman — both of whom represented many of the issues I care about. But a lot has changed since that time of staying up late to hand out flyers and giving up my weekends to canvass.”
Read full post @
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamira-burley/what-it-takes-to-get-my-vote_b_1933816.html