Vilsack, 69, a former governor of Iowa, is the seventh member of his Cabinet Biden has now chosen. Instead, Biden settled on Vilsack, who is white and from an important rural farming state. Just hours after Biden made official his historic choice of Austin for defence secretary, a group of Black civil rights activists urged Biden to nominate a Black attorney general and to make civil rights a higher priority. Al Sharpton, the civil rights leader and talk show host, said in an interview on Tuesday before a meeting with Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. Also on Tuesday, a group of more than 1,000 high-profile Black women signed a letter to Biden saying they were “deeply troubled” by the small number of Black women mentioned as possible candidates for top jobs in his administration.

Source: bd News24 December 09, 2020 08:26 UTC