Early Voting Numbers / Must Read Guest Commentary

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Greetings!

Please see the following early voting numbers. COAL will continue to encourage its membership, community-of-interest and the Black community collectively, to take action and Vote. Why? Because Voting is our voice and our main source of political strength.

Please vote, then ensure that every eligible member of your family votes, then start in on your circle of friends.


Vote as you please, but please vote.

Please also read, through to its end, a very compelling and detailed guest commentary by one of our highly respected political thought-leaders, Ms. Delmarie Cobb.

Respectfully,

COAL Board of Directors
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"The time to work seriously and collectively, to improve the state of our Community, is upon us..."
Let Us be intentional in all aspects of the Work that must be done.
Guest Commentary
3/28/23

Stop the Black Shakedown!

You have a choice

“The business community that’s supporting me has also supported Mayor Daley. Many of them have given money to Rahm Emanuel, and many of them have given money to Lori Lightfoot,” responded Paul Vallas, during a mayoral runoff debate on FOX 32.

And therein lies the problem. These are the same people who supported Mayor Richard M. Daley and Paul Vallas as they corporatized Chicago Public Schools. These are the same people who supported Emanuel’s closing of 50 schools after more than a decade of starving neighborhood schools by siphoning money to charter schools, contract schools and Tax Increment Financing Districts.

Since 1985, the policies that Mayors Daley, Emanuel and their Chicago Public Schools CEO’s Paul Vallas and Arne Duncan embraced and foisted on Chicago’s Black residents during their tenures have displaced families, replaced families and decimated communities. Continue Reading

“Black Power, in its broad and positive meaning, is a call to black people to amass the political and economic strength to achieve their legitimate goals...."
Mayoral Runoff Forums / Polls / Information
With one week remaining until Chicago’s mayoral runoff election on April 4, Northwestern University’s Center for the Study of Diversity and Democracy (CSDD) and a coalition of Black and Latino nonprofits released the results of a second nonpartisan poll showing candidates Brandon Johnson and Paul Vallas in a neck-and-neck race to the finish line.

Lissa Druss & Thom Serafin go behind the scenes of polling voters with Rod McCulloch of Victory Research. Who will be Chicago's next mayor? Has Paul Vallas stayed on message? What has driven Brandon Johnson's recent five-point jump?

More than $21 million has flowed into City Council races this election cycle, reports Block Club Chicago, which takes an in-depth look today into how “unions, interest groups and some of Chicago’s wealthiest businessmen are waging an expensive ward-by-ward battle over the direction of the city.”
March 30th - click on image to register
ELECTION INFORMATION
About COAL
COAL is an umbrella organization founded by 13 of Chicago's historic African American mens clubs. COAL's overarching mission is to identify, examine, illuminate and find resolution to issues impacting the greater community. We strive to use our collective experience, expertise and resources to improve the quality of opportunity, quality of preparedness and the quality of outcomes (expressed as 'quality of life') for our Community.
Founding Member Organizations
100 Black Men Of Chicago ■ Chicago Assembly ■ Chicago Connection ■ Druids Club ■ Frogs Club ■ Lunch Bunch ■ New Committee ■ Original 40 Club Of Chicago ■ Rat Pack ■ Royal Coterie Of Snakes ■ Saints ■ Sigma Pi Phi Beta-Boule ■ UIC Male Forum (now Chicago Good Health Group)
What We Believe
The Coalition of African American Leaders believes that it is important to examine the critical issues confronting the African American community where injustice, inequality and the absence of access and opportunity continue to prevail, thereby negatively impacting us as a people.

COAL is an assemblage that advocates and organizes for appropriate and responsible public policy change, system behavior change and equality of opportunity. We aim to achieve for all of our people the fullness of the life experience without any form of racism or exclusion as a deterrent.

We believe we must prepare ourselves for the opportunity of this full participation, thereby achieving the necessary education and training to participate.
Contact: Clarence Wood, Chairman 312.404.8269 - Craig K. Wimberly, President 773.350.9315
Email: publicpolicy@coalchicago.com
COAL is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization incorporated in Illinois, USA.
Donations are tax-deductible to the full extent allowed by U.S. law.