Florida A&M University’s campus was the last stop on an organization’s college tour Friday with one main objective – encouraging young, Black students to vote.
NMAC – formerly known as the National Minority AIDS Council, a community-based organization that fights for health equity – went on a “Get Out the Vote HBCU Liberation Tour” to visit historically Black colleges and universities in southern cities ahead of the 2024 U.S. presidential election .
While FAMU’s Set Friday was in full effect, the Washington, D.C., headquartered organization’s table in front of the H. Manning Efferson Student Union building attracted a steady stream of students as they stopped by to get help with requesting an absentee ballot if needed and to play trivia for goodies.
“I came up with this initiative after noticing how a lot of younger people were not interested in the election,” NMAC Program Coordinator Destiny Pearson, a recent Florida International University graduate, told the Tallahassee Democrat. “This was in the beginning of the year before Kamala came in the race.”