'Congress has starved state and local communities of the resources they need to run safe, and accessible, elections. We can't allow this in November. Our democracy can't wait,' Beyoncé's mother, Tina Knowles-Lawson wrote
Beyonce and Tina Knowles attend the after party following Jay-Z's concert at Carnegie Hall to benefit The United Way Of New York City and the Shawn Carter Foundation at the 40 / 40 Club on Feb. 6, 2012 in New York City.
"We are concerned Black women," Knowles-Lawson wrote."Many of us are mothers of Black sons and daughters -- some of whom have lost our children -- and we have a vision for a new America.This past month has culminated in a moment of reckoning for the country.
"Chaos at polling places in recent primaries has demonstrated that elections officials are unprepared to hold safe and accessible elections this year" during the coronavirus pandemic, she wrote, mentioning examples of problematic experiences in Wisconsin, where -- in Milwaukee -- it was reported that more than 70 voters contracted COVID-19 on Election Day, when they had to stand in line for hours at limited polling places due to not receiving absentee ballots in the mail;...
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