Black Journalists' Association Co-Chair Steps Down After Trump Accepts Invite

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : NABJ President Ken Lemon and convention co-chair Tia Mitchell have defended the decision in social media posts, saying it conformed to a tradition of inviting presidential candidates during an election year and it was an opportunity for Trump to face questions from top Black journalists.
47% : "To the journalists interviewing Trump, I wish them the best of luck," she wrote in an X post.
38% : She said she was not consulted about the move to platform Trump.
37% : Her abrupt exit a day before the convention is set to begin follows a torrent of backlash over its plan to host Trump, who is set to participate in a moderated Q&A with ABC News reporter Rachel Scott, Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner, and Semafor reporter Kadia Goba.
32% : "The reports of attacks on Black women White House correspondents by the then president of the United States are not myth or conjecture, but fact," she wrote on X. "To have a presumed orchestrated session with the former president is an affront to what this organization stands for and a slap in the face to the Black women journalists (NABJ journalists of the year) who had to protect themselves from the wrath of this Republican presidential nominee who is promoting an authoritarian agenda that plans to destroy this nation and her democracy with his Project 2025.""I'm disappointed that in a space where so many queer and trans members still feel vulnerable will now feel even more unsafe due to Trump being invited and the possibility of his most vicious followers coming to the hotel to support him," Femi Redwood, the chair of NABJ's LGBTQ+ task force, wrote on X.Jemele Hill, a contributing writer at The Atlantic, said she didn't have a problem with the decision to host Trump under "the right circumstances," but she said she wasn't aware how "right" this year's conditions were.
30% : April Ryan, a White House reporter for The Grio and a 2017 NABJ "Journalist of the Year," condemned NABJ's platforming by citing the attacks she faced from Trump directly.
24% : "A sham of an interview will destroy the organization's credibility," she wrote on X. "If the majority of NABJ's membership is against Trump being there, the organization should listen.
22% : Trump isn't worth that."

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