Top issues include discrimination, health care, clean water and reproductive autonomy. By Story at a glance While turnout reached historic levels during the last presidential election, barriers to voting remain. A new poll finds that women of color are becoming even more engaged in politics since the last election. After turning out in record numbers for the 2020 presidential election, women of color made it known that their voices would not be silenced. But making them heard is still not easy. “Women of color are an increasingly powerful voting bloc, but efforts to enact restrictions on voting hit us hard. Women of color voters made clear this last election that they are paying attention and won’t be ignored. Black women, in particular, mobilized their communities and turned out votes that delivered victories up and down the ballot,” Marcela Howell, In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda President and CEO, said in a press release.