As Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz crisscross the country in the final few weeks of the presidential election season, MSNBC’s Symone Sanders Townsend and Melissa Murray will host Black Women in America: The Road to 2024. The new special, airing on the network on September 29, will focus on the role Black women will play in the 2024 election.
Traveling across the country to connect with influential Black women and constituent groups, Sanders Townsend and Murray spoke with award-winning actress Kerry Washington, political strategist Donna Brazile, Bishop and former Democratic National Committee Chief of Staff Leah Daughtry, 2024 Democratic National Convention Committee Chairwoman Minyon Moore, lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill and more to explore what Black women across America are thinking about this election. The special will also delve into what presidential candidates Harris and Donald Trump can do to earn their respective votes in November.
Sanders Townsend, host of MSNBC’s The Weekend, worked as a senior advisor to President Joe Biden on his 2020 presidential campaign and served as Vice President Harris’s chief spokesperson and senior advisor for a year.
Murray, an MSNBC legal analyst, is on faculty at the New York University’s School of Law, where she teaches constitutional law, family law, criminal law, reproductive rights and justice and more. She clerked for Sonia Sotomayor when the sitting U.S. Supreme Court judge was on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Black Women in America: The Road to 2024 will air on Sunday, September 29 at 9 p.m. on MSNBC and be available to stream on Peacock.
