The republican National Convention has announced that Alice Marie Johnson, a woman President Trump granted clemency from her life sentence for her involvement in a Tennessee cocaine trafficking operation, will be the Black woman to address next week’s convention, the Washington Post reports.
Tim Scott, the only Black republican in the Senate and one of two Black republicans in Congress (the other being Will Hurd who is not running for reelection) has already been scheduled to speak.
There has been no announcement if Lynne Patton, the silent Black woman Mark Meadows exhibited at a House hearing to prove Donald Trump wasn’t a racist, will again get a speaking slot.