After Trump's win, Black women are rethinking their role as America's reliable political organizers

ATLANTA (AP) — As she checked into a recent flight to Mexico for vacation, Teja Smith chuckled at the idea of joining another Women's March on Washington.

As a Black woman, she just couldn't see herself helping to replicate the largest act of resistance against then-President Donald Trump's first term in January 2017. Even in an election this year where Trump questioned his opponent's race, held rallies featuring racist insults and falsely claimed Black migrants in Ohio were eating residents' pets, he didn't just win a second term. He became the first Republican in two decades to clinch the po...

 

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