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August 5, 2020

Black Lives Matter & Ferguson Activist Cori Bush Pulls Off Huge Upset in Missouri Democratic Primary
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In St. Louis, Missouri, Black Lives Matter activist Cori Bush has scored
a major political upset, defeating 10-term Congressman Lacy Clay in a
Democratic primary. Clay and his father had held the seat for half of a
century. His father was a founding member of the Congressional Black
Caucus.

Cori Bush is a formerly homeless African American woman who helped lead
protests in Ferguson after the police shooting of 18-year-old Michael
Brown. Bernie Sanders was the only member of Congress to endorse Bush
ahead of the election, though she also received the backing of Justice
Democrats and the Sunrise Movement. This is Cori Bush speaking last
night.

Cori Bush: "This summer after George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud
Arbery, Nina Pop and so many more were taken from us, millions of people
have taken to the streets around the world to join us, to join those who
had said, for years, starting in this place, that Black lives matter."



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