Detroit organizers found new ways to increase voter turnout on Election Day

Multiple Detroit-based grassroots organizations and local churches worked together to increase outreach efforts and mobilize Black voters in the presidential election. The efforts, which focused on Black, brown, first-time and infrequent voters in the city, paid off as the battleground state certified the election results Monday, granting president-elect Joe Biden its 16 electoral votes.

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