Civil Rights Leaders Urge Biden to Pick Black Attorney General Nominee

By Elizabeth Crisp, Newsweek

Several prominent civil rights leaders are urging President-elect Joe Biden to nominate a Black person to be his attorney general, citing pressing issues like voting rights, police violence and prison concerns that disproportionately have affected the Black community.

"My preference is to have a Black attorney general," the Rev. Al Sharpton, president and founder of the National Action Network, told reporters Tuesday evening after he and other leaders held a virtual meeting with Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. "The least we can have is someone with a proven civil rights background."

Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, said he also specifically voiced a preference for a Black attorney general who has a background in civil rights, similar to Eric Holder, who served as Barack Obama's attorney general from 2009 to 2015.

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