Leah Wright-Rigueur

Leah Wright-Rigueur

Historian, Author, & Political Scholar.

Donald Trump is pretending to engage the Black community.

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Donald Trump is continuing to struggle with minority voters. Is there any hope for him to win support as the general election approaches? I was invited on MSNBC to weigh in. On Donald Trump’s black outreach: “What we will really have to see is an actual engagement with black life rather than a performance of an engagement with black life.”

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