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BLACK WOMEN LEADERS RESPOND TO TRUMP AND THE GOP IN RESPONSE TO THE QUESTION TO BLACK AMERICA: ‘WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO LOSE?’
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BLACK WOMEN LEADERS RESPOND TO TRUMP AND THE GOP IN RESPONSE TO THE QUESTION TO BLACK AMERICA: ‘WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO LOSE?’

Concerned Black Women LeadersSeptember 10, 2020

Our consortium of Black women leaders has disrupted the status quo of this election cycle and of society. This week, we have been reminded of the question you asked Black people during the 2016 election: “What do you have to lose?”  Our answer, evidenced by increasingly poor economic outcomes, high racial tensions and hate incidents, the coronavirus, and an overall lack of dignity and respect in the White House, is a lot. And for Black women in particular, it’s too much.

Protestors Mount March on Last Day of RNC
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Protestors Mount March on Last Day of RNC

Briahnna Brown, Chicago DefenderJuly 28, 2016

Lloyd Fraser, 35, is not normally a protester, but the Cleveland resident came out Thursdy in the more than 90-degree weather to make a statement against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump using the Republican National Convention (RNC) as a backdrop, because he said that he thinks people need to do more than vote.

Fighting Religious Bigotry with Comedy at the RNC
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Fighting Religious Bigotry with Comedy at the RNC

Briahnna Brown, Howard University News ServiceJuly 28, 2016

Republican Donald Trump and his supporters have said things about Muslims that even his own party members have condemned. They should be banned from the country, they said. They can never be president, they said. There should be a national directory for them, they added.