Vice President Kamala Harris held an exclusive discussion with publishers from the National Newspaper Publishers Association to discuss various issues from voting rights to Roe v. Wade and racism in the United States.
“The Black Press has been very special,” Harris told the publishers in a 30-minute conversation moderated by NNPA President and CEO Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.
In April, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson earned Senate confirmation as the first Black woman to the nation’s high court. “One of the big issues affecting our country right now is affordable housing, and one of the accomplishments of our administration is the work we’ve been doing on home appraisals and how Black families’ homes get appraised for less than white people,” Harris said.Harris said the administration understands the vital issue of voting rights, despite the Senate failing to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the suppression laws that Republican-led states have adopted.
“If we help people to understand when they turned out in record numbers in 2020, what we were able to accomplish. We must remind people of what they get when they vote; that’s the reality we face, but we must speak up and keep fighting.” “We know we have more in common than what separates us, but part of this has to do with people spewing online and other places the things that are not facts.”“I believe in many ways [students] are entering an increasingly unsettled world. The things we took for granted as being settled are not settled.
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