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BLM Leaders Issue First Statement on Donald Trump’s Election

HeadlineNov 17, 2016

The leaders of the Black Lives Matter Network have issued their first statement on Trump’s election. In the statement, they called Trump a white supremacist and said, “Today, like every day before it, we demand reparations, economic justice, a commitment to black futures and an end to the war on black people, in the United States and around the world. The work will be harder, but the work is the same.”

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