This Sorority Is Going All in to Get Out the Vote

In the days after early voting started in Georgia last month, sorority parties broke out around Atlanta.

In suburban Mableton, Ga., dozens of women wearing the pink and green colors of their sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha, danced the “Cha-Cha Slide” on a grassy patch next to a strip mall. Two counties over, other members held a gathering, anchored by Beyoncé songs and free deli food, in a park. South of downtown, another get-together’s music was so loud that it turned the heads of people driving by.

Polls show a close presidential race, and these sorority-hosted events were aimed at persuading people to vote. Ms. Harris, a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha since her days at Howard University, has remained a loyal member of the first Black sorority, and plenty of her sisters are thrilled to see one of their own running for president.

The polls show that Black voters are overwhelmingly backing Harris, but some — especially men — are not matching the level of support that they had for Joe Biden four years ago. The most recent polls in Georgia show Mr. Trump with a slight edge in the state. Nationwide, Black, male voters increasingly are backing Mr. Trump, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll earlier this month.

In their appeal to get the state’s Black, male voters to the ballot box, the sorority is facing a challenge. And time is running out.