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It’s Young Black Women’s Turn in Michigan [yesmagazine.org]

 

This spring and summer, about 150 college-age Black women are knocking door-to-door in neighborhoods in Detroit and Hamtramck, Michigan. The state’s primary election is less than two months away, and these young women are campaigning for 23-year-old Myya D. Jones.

Jones, who is expected to officially announce her run on Monday, could become the youngest woman elected to the Michigan House of Representatives if she wins the District 4 seat.

“I want to get representation for young Black women in the political arena so that we have not only a seat at the table but also a voice,” Jones says. Representation is a real thing, and we don’t really see a lot of Black women in high-ranking positions of power.”

[For more on this story by J. Gabriel Ware, go to http://www.yesmagazine.org/peo...in-michigan-20180610]

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