Diddy will be hosting a virtual "town hall meeting" on his REVOLT TV channel to discuss "The State of Black America & The Coronavirus" with the likes of Meek Mill, Big Sean, Killer Mike, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Sen. Kamala Harris, and more. The 2-hour live event, titled STATE OF EMERGENCY: The State of Black America & The Coronavirus, Its United Effect But Unequal Burden, will take place at 11:00pm EST on Thursday (April 9th). The discussion will be focused on how the coronavirus pandemic has affected the black community, and will specifically centre around "the public health issue, the low-income effect, incarceration and economic relief, and the mental toll of quarantine." Additional guests include Angela Rye, Rev. Al Sharpton, Van Jones, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell, and more.
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Last week, Diddy took to Instagram to urge his followers to get involved in combatting the coronavirus pandemic. “We can’t just sit back and leave our healthcare workers abandoned and unprotected," he wrote in the caption of the video. "Over the next few days, I’ll be locked in and focused on finding ways to directly support our healthcare workers but I don’t have all the answers. If you want to help or have any great ideas, please reach out to me now!"
View this post on Instagram“Let’s get people involved," he went on to say in the three-minute PSA. "Let’s figure out a way to get people involved because people want to do something. There’s no way you could have power and not want to do something with it. I don’t know what superhero story they were watching, but the true superheroes they did it for the good though. Everybody wants to be a superhero, and everybody got a superhero in them, it’s time for us to step this superhero sh*t up, cause we could think anything, we can manifest anything. Think is the thought process, and if we're all together, that sh*t can’t stop us, sh*t can’t kill us off." The virtual town meeting will stream live on the REVOLT TV Youtube channel.
Charlamagne Tha God Blasts Joe Biden For Rejecting "The Breakfast Club"
Charlamagne Tha God has interviewed plenty of other Democratic candidates, but Joe Biden’s camp reportedly won’t allow him to visit “The Breakfast Club.”
There have been plenty of Democratic candidate hopefuls who have made appearances on The Breakfast Club. Prior to this becoming a run-off between Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, The Breakfast Club welcomed interviews from Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren, and Kamala Harris. However, the radio show’s attempts to get the former Vice President of the United States have been rejected.
Tommaso Boddi / Stringer / Getty ImagesCharlamagne Tha God talked about the 2020 Presidential Election with MSNBC’s Craig Melvin and chatted about what The Breakfast Club audience expects from candidates in the upcoming election. During the discussion, Charlamagne was asked about his previous comments regarding Joe Biden avoiding an interview with him and why he thought that was an issue.
“I really have no idea,” Charlamagne said. “Joe Biden owes black people his political life, you know what I’m saying? So don’t disrespect that base by not showing up, especially when all of your other former opponents did. But I definitely got it on great authority that a lot of the black surrogates around him don’t want him to come to The Breakfast Club.“
Charlamagne added that last year Biden’s campaign did attempt to send a black representative to The Breakfast Club in Biden’s place, but they weren’t having it. “That’s what I felt was disrespectful last year. He wanted to send one of his surrogates, I think the brother’s name was Cedric, I don’t remember Cedric’s last name,” Charlamagne added. “I was like, no. That’s kinda wack if all the other candidates went on themselves and you want to send a surrogate. Who do you think you are?”
Watch Charlamagne Tha God talk about the 2020 Presidential Election with MSNBC’s Craid Melvin below.
Kamala Harris Joins DNC Push & Backs Joe Biden
Biden gains more allies.
After the man who was projected to lead the DNC in November had a slow start, he is back where everyone expected him to be. Joe Biden entered the Democratic race for the presidential nomination as a favorite, but a slow start in New Hampshire, Nevada, and Iowa almost doomed his campaign. Lo and behold, Biden captured South Carolina off the strength of Black voters, and rebounded during Super Tuesday to steal the lead back from Bernie Sanders. Biden was able to pick up momentum due to Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, and Tom Steyer backing out the race and endorsing him. Now, another DNC candidate is putting their endorsement behind the former Vice President.
"There is no one better prepared than Joe to steer our nation through these turbulent times, and restore truth, honor, and decency to the Oval Office," Kamala Harris said in a statement on Sunday. "He is kind and endlessly caring, and he truly listens to the American people." Kamala is the latest, after Mike Bloomberg, to throw her support behind Biden just months after she attacked him on the debate stage for being insensitive to Black issues. With the DNC seemingly forming around Biden, does Bernie stand a chance of winning the nomination?