Editing Monica Moorehead (section)

==Biography==
From 1975 to 1980, Monica Moorhead taught kindergarten with Norfolk Public Schools In Norfolk, Virginia.

A political activist since high school, Moorehead distributed newspapers for the [[Black Panther Party]] and subsequently joined the WWP in 1972. She rose to the national leadership in 1979. In [[1996 United States presidential election|1996]], Moorehead was the presidential nominee of the party. She appeared on the ballot in 12 states and received around 29,000 votes, 0.3 percent of all cast, the best-ever showing for a WWP candidate in a presidential election.<ref name="96 results">{{cite book |title=Federal Elections 96: Election Results for the U.S. President, the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives |date=May 1997 |publisher=Federal Election Commission |location=Washington, DC |url=https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/federalelections96.pdf |access-date=July 9, 2021 }}</ref><ref name="mm" /> In [[2000 United States presidential election|2000]] she received 4,795 votes; that year she was only on the ballot in [[Florida]], [[Rhode Island]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]], and [[Wisconsin]].<ref>[http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/2000presgeresults.htm 2000 Official Presidential General Election Results]. Federal Electoral Commission.</ref> On both occasions, her vice-presidential running-mate was [[Gloria La Riva]].

In an open letter (entitled "Blame Monica!"), posted on his website shortly after the [[2000 United States presidential election|U.S. presidential election of 2000]], filmmaker and activist [[Michael Moore]] sarcastically argued that Moorehead, not supporters of [[Ralph Nader]] like himself, were responsible for the election of [[George W. Bush]].<ref>Moore, Michael (November 17, 2000), [http://www.sptimes.com/News/112400/Floridian/Blame_the_other_Monic.shtml "Blame (the other) Monica!"], ''[[St. Petersburg Times]]'' — compiled by Mike Wilson, ''Floridian''.</ref>

Other works include being the author of ''Feminism and Marxism in the 90s'' and ''South Africa: Which Road to Liberation?'' She also edited the book ''Marxism, Reparations, and the Black Freedom Struggle'', a collection of articles from ''[[Workers World (newspaper)|Workers World]]'' newspaper, written by herself and others.

In 2004, Moorehead was one of the campaign managers for the party's presidential candidate, John Parker.<ref name="mm" /> During the 2008 presidential campaign, she endorsed [[Green Party of the United States|Green Party]] candidate, [[Cynthia McKinney]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allthingscynthiamckinney.com/OpenLetterToPoliticallyConsciousBlackAmerica|title=Open Letter to Politically Conscious Sisters and Brothers of Black America|work=All Things Cynthia McKinney|access-date=16 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141216043224/http://www.allthingscynthiamckinney.com/OpenLetterToPoliticallyConsciousBlackAmerica|archive-date=16 December 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===2016 presidential election===
[[File:Monica Moorehead presidential campaign, 2016.jpg|thumb|Campaign logo]]
On November 8, 2015, Moorehead received the [[2016 United States presidential election|2016]] presidential nomination of the [[Workers World Party]], the first time since 2004 that the party had opted to run a presidential candidate.<ref name="mm">{{cite web |url = http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2015/11/workers-world-party-nominates-monica-moorehead-for-president/ |title = Workers World Party Nominates Monica Moorehead for President |work = Independent Political Report|date  = November 9, 2015|access-date = November 16, 2015}}</ref> Her running mate was [[Lamont Lilly]].<ref name="mm"/> At the time of Moorehead's nomination, the party did not have ballot access in any state.<ref name="mm" /> Moorehead ran in the [[Peace and Freedom Party]]'s presidential primary in California, and received 1,487 votes, 29.72 percent of all ballots cast. Moorehead lost to Gloria la Riva, by then a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, who won with 49.47 percent of the vote.<ref name="2016 results">{{cite book |title=Federal Elections 2016: Election Results for the U.S. President, the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives |date=December 2017 |publisher=Federal Election Commission |location=Washington, DC |url=https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/federalelections2016.pdf |access-date=July 9, 2021}}</ref> 

[[Farleigh Dickinson University]] included Moorehead as one of four choices — along with Clinton, Trump, and [[Prohibition Party]] candidate [[Jim Hedges]] — in an October 2016 poll and found that, in the absence of the Green and Libertarian Party nominees as named choices, Moorehead drew three percent support.<ref name="2016 poll1">{{cite web |last1=Winger |first1=Richard |title=National Presidential Poll Asks About Four Presidential Candidates, and Then Asks Same Respondents to Choose Among Clinton, Trump, Prohibition, and Workers World Nominees |url=http://ballot-access.org/2016/10/05/national-presidential-poll-asks-about-four-presidential-candidates-and-then-asks-same-respondents-to-choose-among-clinton-trump-prohibition-and-workers-world-nominees/ |website=Ballot Access News |access-date=July 9, 2019 |date=October 5, 2016}}</ref><ref name="2016 poll2">{{cite journal |last1=Cassino |first1=Dan |title=How Polls Overestimate Support for Third-Party Candidates |url=https://hbr.org/2016/11/how-polls-overestimate-support-for-third-party-candidates |journal=[[Harvard Business Review]] |access-date=July 9, 2021 |date=November 4, 2016}}</ref> In the 2016 general election, Moorehead appeared on the ballot in three states — New Jersey, Utah, and Wisconsin — and as a recognized write-in candidate in six others.<ref name="2016 results" /> She received a total of 4,317 votes.<ref name="2016 results" /> 

In 2019, the ''[[Atlantic Magazine|Atlantic]]'' referred to Moorehead as "the once and perhaps future presidential candidate of the Workers World Party", although she did not run in 2020.<ref name="Atlantic profile">{{cite web |last1=Lowery |first1=Annie |date=August 29, 2019 |title=The People Who Think Bernie Is Moderate |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/real-socialists-left-bernie/596890/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190923153944/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/real-socialists-left-bernie/596890/ |archive-date=September 23, 2019 |access-date=July 9, 2019 |website=Atlantic}}</ref>