ACTIVISTS PUSH FOR BIDEN TO ADDRESS RACIAL EQUALITY BILLS

A joint letter signed by more than 400 lawmakers, activists, civil rights leaders, musicians and actors calls on President Biden to support Congressional bills on racial equity and reparative justice through executive orders.

Black Music Action Coalition CEO Willie "Prophet" Stiggers, NAACP President Derrick Johnson and Reps. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., and Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., are among the people who signed the letter that asks the president to meet with the Congressional members and urges them to “tackle and attend to the unfinished work of advancing comprehensive equity through executive orders and actions.”

This letter, the third of its kind, was sent after several months of unsuccessful attempts to secure a meeting with the White House. “As we face another election year, this conversation regarding urgent executive action on reparations is not just about policy—it is about the people of the United States of America, the fate of our democracy, national unity and national security,” the letter states.

“The state of our Union depends upon it.”