Our mission is to make sure Black communities are not simply informed about the decisions shaping our future, but equipped to help make those decisions. An informed community is a powerful community.
Worcester and Middlesex District, Massachusetts
Our Data. Our Voice. Our Power.™
Our mission is to make sure Black communities are not simply informed about the decisions shaping our future, but equipped to help make those decisions. An informed community is a powerful community.
Your government, on the record
What is being decided in Worcester and Middlesex District, who decides and how they voted, where the money goes and how Black residents are doing. Type your address to see your own districts.
29.7 million Black voting age citizens.
The votes are counted. See how your officials vote, and what they decide next.
Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2020 to 2024: 12.3% of all citizens of voting age.
Most of what shapes our lives is decided at a city council or county board with almost no one watching. SourceLine shows you every one of those decisions, who makes them and how they vote.
Then it gives you a voice: add yours, your neighbors add theirs, and the count goes to the people who decide before they vote.
Every fact links to the official record.
A national record of Black communities: who decides, how they vote and where the money goes. Open in every state, with local officials and their votes today in a growing list of places.
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Every state and DC is open. Tap one for its members of Congress and state lawmakers, the Black community by the numbers and what Black newspapers there are reporting.
Deepest local coverage today. We also read the county commission, city council and school board meetings.
More cities and counties are on the way. We keep adding city councils, county commissions and school boards across the country. Until your local board is here, its page says so plainly, and your members of Congress and state lawmakers are already there.
Lead story · Voting power
Nearly 30 million Black citizens can vote. Where that power sits, how many votes it takes to decide things, and who sets the rules, down to your address.
Read the storyWhat is being decided near you, and the date, before the vote.
Every official at every level, and how each one voted.
What reaches your area, where it comes from and who controls it.
Say where you stand. It is counted with your neighbors and sent to the people who decide.
Every seat on the path, with facts you can trust.
Voting, schools, housing, jobs and Black-owned businesses, safety, the courts, health, seniors, reparations or something else. Concerns come from the people who live in a place, so we ask you to confirm your home address once. You do not need an account, and your name is never shown. Your concern is counted with your neighbors' and matched to the body that can act on it.
Black America by the numbers
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Each card shows the nation and the states with the highest and lowest figures. Tap a card to see every state, then any county. Enter your address above and each card adds your own state.
When a county commission, city council or school board decides something that touches the Black community, we will tell you what happened, who voted and how to be heard. Pick what matters to you.
Every state at the Congress and state legislature level today. County and city officials and their votes are on SourceLine in a growing list of places, with more coming soon. SourceLine shows the record. It never tells you who to vote for. See what we cover in each state ›
SourceLine Insights
Foundations, nonprofits, school partners and newsrooms can compare any places we cover, download every figure with its source, and ask for reports built around their work.
Every figure on this page shows the year it describes. Public agencies release their numbers on their own schedules, often a year or more after the work of counting is done. The Census Bureau, for example, publishes its five year community survey each December, and the national reading test is given every two years. That is why some figures are not from this year. SourceLine updates each one as soon as the agency publishes it.
For some counties and small towns, SourceLine has not found meeting records online. Where it has not, we add them as they become available. A page that says SourceLine hasn’t updated a record yet means exactly that.