Black Lives Matter activists are pressuring Democrats to embrace the BREATHE Act, which includes a section requiring a “roadmap for prison abolition.”“The BREATHE Act is a legislative love letter to Black people,” BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors wrote in an op-ed for Teen Vogue on Thursday. WHAT IS THE BREATHE ACT? In addition, the BREATHE Act would create a commission to study reparations, give voting rights to undocumented immigrants, decriminalize all drug offenses, end cooperation with immigration authorities, pilot programs for universal basic income, among other sweeping changes. BIDEN, HARRIS HAVE YET TO SAY WHETHER THEY WILL GRANT REQUESTED BLM MEETINGCullors insisted in her letter to Biden and Harris that Black people "want to be heard and our agenda to be prioritized." This is a time for leadership on a tragic, tragic issue of unarmed black people in America being killed."

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