The Houston Black American Democrats is a democratic organization dedicated to increasing civic engagement and voter participation in Black and underserved communities. H-BAD strives to create an enlightened community by engaging people in all aspects of public life through service/volunteerism, advocacy, leadership development and voting.
The Houston Black American Democrats seeks to serve as an effective convener and facilitator at the local, state and national levels of efforts to address the disenfranchisement of underserved and other marginalized communities through civic engagement
H-BAD has a strong membership of individuals representing a diverse constituency base including; women, men, members of the LGBTQ community, youth, seniors, educators, faith leaders, public policy makers, researchers and others. H-BAD has adopted a year-round civic engagement program structure called H-BAD 365 in order to maximize its ability to increase Black civic engagement and voter participation on a year-round basis.