With just 8 months until the November 2024 elections, our new Higher Heights poll shows that Black women have top concerns about a broad range of issues, but the top issues for Black women voters are inflation, the cost of living and affordable housing. Higher Heights released the poll findings in conjunction with HIT Strategies at a media briefing on the National Press Club in Washington, DC.

Higher Heights and the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University, released Black Women in American Politics 2023. For nearly a decade we have teamed up to report on the status of Black women in American politics. This report provides a foundation for this work, offering an overview of Black women’s political representation today and over the past decade, as well as indicators of how Black women fared in the most recent election.

Higher Heights Leadership Fund, a 501(c)(3), is building a national civic engagement infrastructure and network to strengthen Black women’s leadership capacity. Higher Heights Leadership Fund is investing in a long-term strategy to expand and support Black women’s leadership pipeline at all levels and strengthen their civic participation beyond just Election Day.