Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumClinton Gains Support From 170 African American Women Leaders
All of these black women will rally African American voters around Clinton's candidacy in the upcoming South Carolina primary on Feb. 27 and March primary states.
The women will serve as surrogates for Clinton, a Democrat, and according to the campaign, they will host debate watch parties, neighborhood meetings, and women-only phone banks.
They will also walk door-to-door to businesses that include beauty salons, barber shops and grocery stores to carry Clinton's message about closing the pay gap for women, fighting for paid family leave, raising the minimum wage, and protecting women's reproductive rights.
Some of the black women leaders who endorsed Clinton include, actress Angela Bassett; Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner, who was killed by police in New York; actress Vivica Fox; Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin, who was shot and killed by George Zimmerman in Florida; Alexis Herman, former Secretary of Labor; Alice Huffman, an NAACP board member; Shonda Rhimes, Executive Producer of the hit television show "Scandal"; actress Holly Robinson-Peete; and Democrats Mayor Muriel Bowser of Washington D.C.; Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas; Rep. Maxine Waters of California; and Rep. Donna Edwards of Maryland.
The following list of African American Women Leaders was released by the Campaign:
· Shelvy Abrams, Chair, United Federation of Teachers Paraprofessional Chapter (NY)
· Congresswoman Alma Adams, North Carolina
· Uzo Aduba, Actress
· State Representative Raumesh Akbari, Tennessee
· Mary Armstrong, President, AFT, St. Louis
· Tichina Arnold, Actress
· Diane Babineaux, General Vice President, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
· Congresswoman Karen Bass, California
· Angela Bassett, Actress
· Congresswoman Joyce Beatty, Ohio
· Denise Berkley, Statewide Secretary of CSEA
· Rev. Traci Blackmon
· State Senator Margie Bright Matthews, South Carolina
· Mayor Muriel Bowser, Washington DC
· Congresswoman Corrine Brown, Florida
· Mayor Aja Brown, Compton, California
· Shryll Brown, Fairfield Clerk to Council, South Carolina
· Councilwoman Jeanie Brown-Burrows, Williamsburg County, South Carolina
· Rev. Dr. Jo Ann Browning
· Gizelle Bryant, Reality TV Star
· Ursula Burns, CEO, Xerox
· Laphonza Butler, President, SEIU Local 2015
· Cynthia Butler-McIntyre, Former President, Delta Sigma Theta Inc.
· Valiesha Butterfield-Jones, Political Strategist, Founder of WEEN
The list goes ooooooon! I better stop now.. please got to the link to see the rest.
Much More~http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/clinton-gains-support-170-african-american-women-leaders-n510846
I love all these African American women going to South Carolina to help Hillary! The intensity of their support is exhilarating! Thank you!
[font color=blue]Hillary's Group~Mahalo~[/font]
MADem
(135,425 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)sheshe2
(83,898 posts)Boom!
Cha
(297,655 posts)I just want to hug them all! U2!, this so Awesome! Thank you!
Cha
(297,655 posts)riversedge
(70,299 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)Thank you so much, rivers!
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)big K&R!
I can't wait for SC to come!
Cha
(297,655 posts)Gracias!
Coolest Ranger
(2,034 posts)I am disappointed at not being on that list was Nina Turner.
Cha
(297,655 posts)Thank you, Coolest~
Walk away
(9,494 posts)I can't wait to get NH over and really start this primary!
Cha
(297,655 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)She is our last remaining Democratic representative in Congress, in either house.
Last year, her speech and introduction of Rep. John Lewis at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge at the 50th Anniversary of 'Bloody Sunday' in Selma, AL - Rep. Lewis, who in turn introduced President Obama - her speech that day will be remembered as a clarion call to the next generation!
Alabama - in the SEC Primary - is Hillary Country! No doubt about it! And Terri Sewell will deliver again!
Cha
(297,655 posts)they need to mix it up.
Lucky people who have Terry Sewell as their Rep.
Thank you!
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)for Hillary! That's incredible!
Cha
(297,655 posts)Aloha and Mahalo to you and the same to all the wonderful AA women who will be heading off the South Carolina real soon!
Stuckinthebush
(10,847 posts)K and R!
Cha
(297,655 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)Kath1
(4,309 posts)What a wonderful group of women!
Right on!
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Wow this is great for Hillary!