Ajamu Baraka in 2016 Vice-Presidential Debate

On Foreign Policy: International coordinator of Black Left Unity Network

As Democrat Tim Kaine and Republican Mike Pence square off in the only vice-presidential debate, there might be some curiosity Green Party candidate Jill Stein's running mate Ajamu Baraka. Baraka, 62, is an African-American human rights activist who grew up on the south side of Chicago and attended graduate school at Clark College, a private, historically black university in Atlanta that is now called Clark Atlanta University. He is the founding executive director of the U.S. Human Rights Network and coordinator of the U.S.-based Black Left Unity Network's Committee on International Affairs.

"I saw myself as someone that was trying to continue the legacy of (W.E.B) DuBois and Malcolm X in terms of internationalizing the struggle of African people in the U.S.," Baraka told Democracy Now. Baraka was honored by then-United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan in 1998 for his work in human rights.

Source: International Business Times: 2016 Vice-Presidential Debate Oct 4, 2016

The above quotations are from Vice-Presidential Debate, Oct. 4, 2016, moderated by Elaine Quijano of CBS News. Click here for main summary page. Click here for a profile of Ajamu Baraka. Click here for Ajamu Baraka on all issues.
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