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We’re in a critical moment. Now more than ever we need to arm ourselves with as much education as possible on how the decisions of our leaders can impact our families today, tomorrow, and beyond.

For today’s “Lunch and Learn” Series Where They Stand: Our Voices, Our Issues, we are drilling down on candidates’ plans for addressing climate change and “green jobs”.

We see today that the unforeseen can impact our lives in a blink of an eye. It’s important that we prepare and protect our families for generations to come.

From cities to rural areas, Black neighborhoods and communities often bear the brunt of environmental damage and the resulting climate change effects. We see it in higher asthma rates, poisonous brown fields, property damage, and unsafe water and weather patterns that destroy our way of life. And it’s getting worse. Recent rollbacks of hard- won environmental protection laws that banned certain types of harmful energy production and dumping of toxic waste will hit communities of color hardest, affecting everything from our water safety (think Flint, Michigan) to our food sustainability, weather patterns and the air we breath.

In their own words, the remaining Democratic presidential candidates address not only the urgency of climate change, but also the development of green industry, if elected.

In this moment, we also need to create spaces for Black women to come together and talk about how to protect our families and what this all means for how we determine what leaders we put in position to carry forth the very policies and plans that are failing us today.

That’s why, this Sunday we’re gathering our girls (including you!) for a #BlackWomenLead Sunday Brunch to talk all things 2020 election. We’ll be hosting the event live on Facebook—you don’t want to miss it! And then get ready for our Twitter Debate Watch party that night.

You can expect to hear from:

• Jessica Bryd, Political Strategist
• Nse Ufot, New Georgia Project 
• Danielle Atkinson, Mothering Justice 
• Fatima Goss Graves, National Women’s Law Center
• Judith Browne Dianis, Advancement Project
• Latosha Brown, Black Voters Matter
• Leah D. Daughtry, Faith Leader, Author, Political Strategist

Don’t just flex your voting power, make sure your voice is heard and flex your power to hold candidates accountable to our communities. 

Onward,

Glynda   

Higher Heights
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