Chance the Rapper, NAACP to Register Voters at Upcoming Shows

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

Source: Chicago 5 NBC

Chicago musician Chance the Rapper is teaming with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to register concertgoers to vote during stops of his upcoming Magnificent Coloring World Tour.

Chance, whose real name is Chancellor Bennett, kicked off his tour Saturday in Los Angeles. Registration drives are set to begin Saturday during the Magnificent Coloring Day Festival at Chicago’s U.S. Cellular Field. Chance is hosting the event which features scheduled performances from John Lennon, Alicia Keys, Lil Wayne and others.

“Proud to announce I’ll be teaming with @NAACP for #magnificentcoloringworldtour to bring Voters Registration to the show #staywokandvote,” Bennet tweeted last week.

“Chance the Rapper is an artist whose music praises and lifts up our common humanity, and whose call for action speaks to the yearning of this moment,” NAACP President and CEO Cornell Williams Brooks said. “This year, more than it has in a generation, we must use the power of our voices and our votes to exercise our sacred right to vote.”




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[forest444]

1. Next stop: Rethug witch hunts against Chance the Rapper and the NAACP.

The crime: encouraging the "wrong types" to vote. Can't have that.

[Initech]

2. Channeling Frank Zappa, I take it?

[frazzled]

3. Chance is great... But make that

John LEGEND ... not John Lennon!!

In other news, this event will be the swan song for US Cellular Field. On November 1 it gets renamed--get this--Guaranteed Rate Field. Wha? It was bad enough that Sears Tower got renamed, but people are absolutely humiliated here. Though not as humiliated as when Trump put up his name in huuuuuuge letters on a building right in the most visible place in the city.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. yeah, that was pretty dumb. Either that or there's some "peace loving zombie" running around

performing.

[CBHagman]

5. That's the way.

I wish all the best to everyone registering voters these last few weeks before Election Day.

Be sure to check your registration and ensure you're ready to go for early voting, absentee ballots, or the big day itself.