While thousands of Republicans gather in Cleveland next week for their party’s national convention, Hillary Clinton will make a stop on the opposite side of Ohio for another gathering.
The Democratic presidential hopeful will speak at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Cincinnati on July 18 at the group’s own national convention.
Clinton’s remarks to the leading civil rights group come on the heels of separate police shootings in Baton Rouge, La., and Falcon Point, Minn., that killed two African-American men and a mass shooting in Dallas that left five law enforcement officers dead and several more injured. The incidents have pushed race relations to the forefront of the national conversation.
“In these violent and horrifying times when a new generation is waking to call for police accountability, economic and education equality and protecting the right to vote for all people, this election marks a significant moral moment for America,” NAACP President Cornell William Brooks said in a statement on Monday.
The group expects to host thousands of its members at the annual convention, during which it will kick off a “massive voter engagement and registration initiative to ensure that voters are empowered and heard in the Nov. 8 election.”
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump had yet to respond to an invitation by Monday, presumably because the NAACP’s convention directly coincides with the RNC, thus making it difficult for him to attend.
