The woman who hopes to be the first Black female president won’t be speaking to the National Association of Black Journalists.
Prominent Black journalist Roland Martin posted Tuesday evening on social media that the organization had refused her campaign’s offer of an electronic appearance at its Annual Convention and Career Fair.
“BREAKING NEWS: Vice President @KamalaHarris will not be speaking at @NABJ in-person or virtually. They offered for her to take questions virtually, but was turned down by NABJ,” Mr. Martin wrote.
He was not happy.
“That makes NO sense. We do interviews DAILY by satellite, Skype and Zoom, so this should have happened,” he said, going on in the thread to cite Ms. Harris’ campaign schedule and attendance at the funeral of Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee.
The other major-party presidential candidate — Republican Donald Trump — will be at the Chicago conference for an in-person interview Wednesday.
His event will be co-moderated by Rachel Scott, senior congressional correspondent for ABC News, Fox News’ Harris Faulkner and Kadia Goba, politics reporter at Semafor.
• Victor Morton can be reached at vmorton@washingtontimes.com.
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