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padding: 8px 24px; margin-left: 0; margin-top: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px;">“You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.” ~ Fannie Lou Hamer </blockquote><p style="color: #202a33;">Tomorrow, May 10th, is West Virginia's primary election, with polls open from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. </p><p style="color: #202a33;">There are some significant changes because of redistricting, but a record number of Black candidates are running across the state too!</p><p style="color: #202a33;">Meet some of the notable candidates in this video produced by the WV Democratic Black Caucus </p></div>                  </td>            </tr>                      <tr>              <td align="center" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 25px;word-break:break-word;">                      <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px;">        <tbody>          <tr>            <td style="width:480px;">                      <a href="https://youtu.be/1CbeBKQUycg" target="_blank" style="color: #27AF60;">                <img height="auto" src="https://ucarecdn.com/33ac4f3f-5856-4a33-aa73-8360ac059c70/-/preview/480x360/-/overlay/201ffc0b-37da-47cf-ad05-27778b8f6547/50p,50p/" style="border:0;display:block;outline:none;text-decoration:none;height:auto;width:100%;font-size:18px;" width="480">            </a>                  </td>          </tr>        </tbody>      </table>                  </td>            </tr>                      <tr>              <td align="center" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 25px;word-break:break-word;">                      <div style="font-family:Montserrat, Verdana;font-size:18px;font-weight:500;line-height:1.52;text-align:center;color:#000000;"><span>2022 Black Candidates from WVDC </span></div>                  </td>            </tr>                      <tr>              <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:6.5px 25px;word-break:break-word;">                      <div style="font-family:Montserrat, Verdana;font-size:18px;font-weight:500;line-height:1.52;text-align:left;color:#000000;"><p style="color: #202a33;">BBG will look at the primary winning candidates in our Juneteeth issue. We invite you to send us your <a href="https://airtable.com/shrBv0MGcRc1WAFvC" target="_blank" style="color: #27AF60;">opinion pieces and story ideas</a> before May 15th.</p><p style="color: #202a33;">As we wait for the primary results, BBG invites you to reflect on last year's Washington Post article by Clyde McGrady on the power of Black voters in West Virginia.</p></div>                  </td>            </tr>                      <tr>              <td align="center" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 25px;word-break:break-word;">                      <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px;">        <tbody>          <tr>            <td style="width:550px;">                      <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/black-voters-west-virginia-manchin/2021/08/11/90ffef54-d955-11eb-ae62-2d07d7df83bd_story.html" target="_blank" style="color: #27AF60;">                <img height="auto" src="https://ucarecdn.com/15775de2-8cd7-45f7-a7cd-392b0b7e56a7/" style="border:0;display:block;outline:none;text-decoration:none;height:auto;width:100%;font-size:18px;" width="550">            </a>                  </td>          </tr>        </tbody>      </table>                  </td>            </tr>                      <tr>              <td align="center" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 25px;word-break:break-word;">                      <div style="font-family:Montserrat, Verdana;font-size:18px;font-weight:500;line-height:1.52;text-align:center;color:#000000;"><span>Black Voters In WV are tired of being invisable (2021) </span></div>                  </td>            </tr>                      <tr>              <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:6.5px 25px;word-break:break-word;">                      <div style="font-family:Montserrat, Verdana;font-size:18px;font-weight:500;line-height:1.52;text-align:left;color:#000000;"></div>                  </td>            </tr>                      <tr>              <td style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 25px;word-break:break-word;">                      <p style="color: #202a33; 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