BE Politics caught up with Hip Hop Caucus Founder and CEO, Rev. Lennox Yearwoodto discuss the launch of Respect My Vote!

This week, the Hip Hop Caucus launched Respect My Vote!, a national non-partisan campaign aimed at mobilizing young voters to participate in the political process. BE Politics caught up with Hip Hop Caucus Founder and CEO, Rev. Lennox Yearwood to discuss the launch of Respect My Vote!

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With history-changing campaigns such as Vote or Die and Voice Your Choice under his belt, Rev. Yearwood is no stranger to mobilizing young voters. He often appoints celebrities as spokespeople and ambassadors for his get out the vote campaigns, using their platform and fame to make the electoral process more appealing to young people. Yearwood also uses celebrities to attract another, often ignored portion of voters: ex-offenders.

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The overall purpose of the campaign is to push individuals to get involved in all elections that can shape their communities and lives.

 

With Election Day just months away, one campaign is hoping to encourage individuals to get out off the sidelines and let their voices be heard.

The Hip Hop Caucus — a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization which connects the hip hop community to young people and members of urban communities to motivate participation in the civic process — launched Tuesday its 2016 Respect My Vote! campaign.

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Charlamagne Tha God, radio personality of nationally syndicated Power 105 “Breakfast Club” and Star on MTV2 “Uncommon Sense” will serve as a spokesperson for the campaign. Respect My Vote! targets voters in urban communities and on college campuses, ages 18-40 years-old, to register and get out to vote. 

Respect My Vote! is a national Hip Hop culture-based campaign that reaches the disenfranchised with celebrity spokespeople, social media influencers, and community leaders.  People can register to vote at www.respectmyvote.com, and join the campaign by pledging to vote, signing up to volunteer in their communities, and spreading the word through their social networks online.  Starting in the month of May, Respect My Vote! will implement on-the-ground voter registration drives in cities and on campuses across the country with emphasis on states such as Florida, Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Colorado, Nevada and North Carolina. The grassroots drives will be active through voter registration deadlines and then will become major voter turnout drives to get voters to the polls for early voting and on Election Day.

For more information about the Respect My Vote! campaign and to get informed on ex-offenders laws from state to state, please visit www.respectmyvote.com.

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Charlamagne Tha God, Radio Personality on Power 105 “Breakfast Club” and MTV2 “Uncommon Sense” Host is First Celebrity Announced to Join 2016 Campaign as Voice to Combat Disenfranchisement within Political Process.

WASHINGTON, March 22, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — The Hip Hop Caucus, a national non-profit that makes change happen by empowering the Hip Hop community to participate in the civic process, has launched its non-partisan voter registration and education campaign, Respect My Vote! for the 2016 general election.  Charlamagne Tha God, radio personality of nationally syndicated Power 105 “Breakfast Club” and Star on MTV2 “Uncommon Sense” will serve as a spokesperson for the campaign. Respect My Vote! targets voters in urban communities and on college campuses, ages 18-40 years-old, to register and get out to vote.

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Charlamagne Tha God has been announced as the 2016 ‘Respect My Vote’ Spokesperson.

Via Hip Hop Caucus:

Respect My Vote! Campaign has traditionally had high profile spokespeople from the hip hop community with T.I in 2004 and 2 Chainz in 2008. That trend continues in 2016 with Charlemagne. Who is most certainly a powerful and respected figure in media and entertainment.

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Ebro in the Morning sat down with Rev Lennox Yearwood for an important conversation about the importance of voting, engaging the young hip hop generation, and the Respect My Vote campaign.

He spoke about the importance of the 2016 election and is trying to make sure the amount of people voting does not decrease as he feels we are literally “fighting for our lives.”

For more information on the campaign visit Respect My Vote website.

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The bold and unapologetic Charlamagne Tha God is bringing his voice to young voters as the spokesperson for The Hip Hop Caucus’ ‘Respect My Vote!‘ campaign, urging the youth to discover the power of the voting process.

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