Post by Logan on Jan 20, 2016 19:54:01 GMT -6
News last week that the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign was bringing its “Feel the Bern” tour to Nashville’s Tennessee State University gave some the impression that Sanders himself would be visiting the college campus.
But that won’t be the case.
The event for the Democratic presidential candidate, scheduled for Friday night at TSU after originally being set for Thursday, is instead headlined by surrogate Shaun King, a civil rights activist and journalist who recently signed on to stump for Sanders on a campaign-sponsored tour of Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
Other speakers are to include Ledon Jones and Matt Kuhn and perhaps Atlanta rapper Killer Mike, according to an invitation for the event posted on the Tennessee for Bernie Sanders Facebook page. The panel talk is expected to touch on income equality, tuition-free public college and universities and a "racial justice platform." The invitation makes no mention of Sanders speaking himself.
On the same night as the TSU rally, Sanders is scheduled to attend a town hall meeting in Hudson, N.H., according to a campaign news release.
Continued at www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/politics/2016/01/20/feel-bern-nashville-rally-wont-include-bernie-sanders/79067128/
Cross-posted on the Bernie Sanders sub-board.
But that won’t be the case.
The event for the Democratic presidential candidate, scheduled for Friday night at TSU after originally being set for Thursday, is instead headlined by surrogate Shaun King, a civil rights activist and journalist who recently signed on to stump for Sanders on a campaign-sponsored tour of Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
Other speakers are to include Ledon Jones and Matt Kuhn and perhaps Atlanta rapper Killer Mike, according to an invitation for the event posted on the Tennessee for Bernie Sanders Facebook page. The panel talk is expected to touch on income equality, tuition-free public college and universities and a "racial justice platform." The invitation makes no mention of Sanders speaking himself.
On the same night as the TSU rally, Sanders is scheduled to attend a town hall meeting in Hudson, N.H., according to a campaign news release.
Continued at www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/politics/2016/01/20/feel-bern-nashville-rally-wont-include-bernie-sanders/79067128/
Cross-posted on the Bernie Sanders sub-board.