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‘Racial justice issues are front and center. ‘ Black ministers make push for new U.S. Attorney in N.J.
Updated Jan 12, 2021;
Posted Jan 12, 2021
A group of Black ministers are pushing for Jamel Semper, pictured here in 2018 as an assistant Essex County prosecutor, to be the next U.S. Attorney in New Jersey.Patti Sapone | NJ Advance Media
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A group of influential Black ministers are pushing for the selection of Jamel Semper to be the next U.S. Attorney of New Jersey.
At a time when “racial justice issues are front and center,” the ministers said Semper, who is currently an assistant U.S. Attorney, would be a “historically and substantively significant pick for U.S. Attorney from New Jersey.”
‘As Americans of color … we owe it to ourselves and our communities to listen to the scientists, look at the data’
Shennell McCloud
Several weeks ago, I told my colleagues I had a confession to make.
As news of Pfizer and Moderna’s successful vaccine trials offered the first glimpse of light at the end of the dark tunnel of 2020, my colleagues asked whether I thought skepticism of vaccines in communities of color, particularly Black communities, would be an issue that the government needs a strategy for.
I hesitated, then spoke honestly: I didn’t know a single Black person who was enthusiastic about being vaccinated, and I had some skepticism of my own.