Kamala HarrisVerified account

We absolutely must support local newspapers. They focus on stories that national media often doesn’t. Well-supported local newspapers can dive deep into the background and find the facts of issues.

Will they tell of your family as slave owners? "My roots go back, within my lifetime, to my paternal grandmother Miss Chrishy (née Christiana Brown, descendant of Hamilton Brown who is on record as plantation and slave owner and founder of Brown’s Town) "... Donald J. Harris

The Defender played a huge role in the Great Migration.

Your view of history?? Or true History??

We’ve lost over 1800 local newspapers since 2004. The Defender is a different case. While its independent voice will continue, its place in history will endure forever.

Good. Save the trees. You can prob reach more people online anyway.

Among other more important issues, it was one of the great advocates for integration in baseball.

How sad, an important newspaper in the history of civil rights and the African-American community.

While I appreciate the attention race is finally and openly getting in this campaign, I’d also like to hear details about national security, STEM, trade, future of social security and Medicare, foreign policy, NASA, cancer. I want to hear about all issues from my next President.

The Defender is as synonymous to the culture as was/is The Afro-American Newspaper in my hometown of Baltimore.