“When we describe ourselves as leaders of national Black women’s organizations, sometimes I think we need to add the obvious sentence: That we are spread out across the United States of America. The National Council of Negro Women, for example, has 2 million members…So when you add up this Black women’s power, you see why we are not only calling for Kristen Clarke’s confirmation, we are demanding that confirmation in the interest of justice."

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