A new political group will work in North Carolina and six other states to get black voters to the ballot box in the 2012 election -- an effort designed to help President Barack Obama's re-election campaign.
Dubbed 1911 United, the group is a super PAC that can raise and spend unlimited amounts of cash to support or oppose a candidate. As reported by POLITICO's Dave Levinthal, the group's organizer, Sinclair Skinner, said the committee is supported by two prominent black fraternities, Kappa Alpha Psi and Omega Psi Phi, and intends to raise about $1.5 million to organize black voters and get first-time voters to the polls.
Read more about the group here.
