St. Louis Approves is spearheading an effort to adopt Proposition D, which would establish an open, non-partisan system for elections to citywide offices. The initiative combines nonpartisan voting with approval voting. St. Louis, a majority Black city, is one of the few major cities that does not have a nonpartisan system of governance. David Cherry, Independent Voting board member, Chicago’s City Leader of the All Stars Project, and President of the Leaders Network, a body of prominent faith and community leaders working together for social justice in Greater Chicago, recently endorsed the movement in the video below. In the video, Cherry strongly disagrees with the idea (promoted by certain political party leaders) that the African American community has no stake in reforming the party system.