How racial issues will define the 2020 presidential election:
, but has called for connecting people to social services, detention alternatives for nonviolent offenders and fairer sentencing practices.
"[Biden is] doing some of these, just not under the same kind of terminology or titles, but his platform has now embraced some of the same policy recommendations," said Nadia Brown. "When it comes to BLM, this movement is vast, and, frankly, I think it is important for the vice president to be in conversation with the various sectors of the movement so that he has a better understanding of what Black Lives Matter stands for, so that he has a better understanding of where the gaps are between where he stands and where this movement stands, but also so that he builds relationships with this movement," Garza said during a virtual discussion on the movement on July...
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