Everyone who’s eligible to vote should be educated, mainly those who are new to the political world. Members of the Trellis crew had the opportunity to join a zoom call regarding our current voting situation. They wrote these based on what they learned and their thoughts on the future election.

During this zoom call we talk about voting. We then talked about how you can register to vote and why it is important. They gave us a link and some other stuff but since I am 17, I won't be able to vote. We also started talking about the election and who we have as options. We talked about the possibility of Trump trying to do something to mess up the election. Someone said that there was a discovery on Facebook of Russian Bots having an ad campaign or something similar to that. People are saying the election is not going to be reliable and that it could be rigged. Another person said, “either choice was bad because Biden isn't really that good and Trump was just terrible so he said either way the election was going to turn out bad.” We then started to talk about why people don't vote. People feel like their voices don't matter. We then proceeded to conversate about Chadwick Boseman. We then played his speech that he gave at Howard; he talked about his life and the challenges that he faces in his career. I liked the part when he was talking about one of his roles on a TV show. He asks one of the producer's why his character was portrayed in a bad way. Since he decided to speak out against that he was fired from that role. This goes to show that he was a great person and he would do anything for what is right no matter the cost.

—By: Gabriel Moreau

In yesterday’s meeting, we had a discussion that explained the significance of having registration for voting. It was also stated how much benefits and changes that could come about once people register to vote and take part in the very common elections in the U.S. Not only that but, we have additionally stated how having the right to vote could overall help a citizen.

Voting is basically an act or method for a group, such as a meeting or an electorate, in order to make a collective decision or express an opinion. These have been mostly seen throughout history in the stance of discussion, debate, or election campaigns. The system of voting is only present in countries that have democracy and freedom speech. Min.OnleiLove has explained to us the process of how voting occurs in different ways. The formalist way of voting is the ballot to elect others for certain positions within a workplace. The other way of voting is informal such as spoken agreement and or verbal gesture. The importance behind voting is mainly that within our history, many people had dogs chase them, and were even hosed down by many people oppressed by change, just so that they couldn't bring about the ratification of prohibiting the racial discriminations of voting. Many people had died while seeking an end to racial discrimination, and the right to vote regardless of color differentiation from the other white American.

To conclude, in our modern society, it is important we take the chance to actually push ourselves to vote within our country. The past and history within this country has already been unraveled and shown how much movements and protests were made to allow for voting to not be discriminative based on both race and gender. Using the ability to vote could allow for us to put the right people in office as President, Vice President, Governor, House representative, Council members, and our congress people. Hence, If more citizens within America can take their time to register for their power to vote, it could allow for us to advance and take advantage of our rights, and bring change for any social justice movement that we fight for.

—By: Gbenga Akinrosoye

We talked about registration for voting . We also learned about the importance of voting and why we should vote . We also talked about the black panther . He talked about his experience at Howard university and how even in college his social status , grades and how he acted didn't truly define him . And that it doesn't define who you will be . He talked about stereotypes at his job as an actor and how he had to play scenes as a child who doesn't have a father and how his mom is on drugs . The overall message was standing up for his principles and advocating himself. Chadwick Boseman . also talked about his first television role in 2003, in an episode of Third Watch. That same year, Boseman portrayed Reggie Montgomery in the daytime soap opera All My Children but stated that he was fired after voicing concerns to producers about racist stereotypes in the script . In the future he played the Black Panther. Boseman was diagnosed with stage III colon cancer in 2016, which eventually progressed to stage IV before 2020. He had never spoken publicly about his cancer diagnosis. During treatment he had multiple surgeries and chemotherapy, he also continued to work and completed production for several films, including Marshall, Da 5 Bloods, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and others. Boseman died at his home as a result of complications related to colon cancer on August 28, 2020, with his wife and family by his side. This is also pretty crazy to me because I was watching his last film which was the Avenger end game when I found out he died.

—By: Raphael Moreau