The statement did not address the reasons behind their departure, saying only that they 'will transition off of the Women’s March Board'
Three founding members of the Women’s March Board, are leaving the board months after some controversy.
Questions about alleged anti-Semitism and possible racist rhetoric connected to the Women’s March organizers swirled for months in late 2018 and ahead of the 2019 march in response to an article in online Jewish magazine Tablet that made such claims, which the organizers denied.The statement from the Women's March notes that the board shuffle came as the result of an open-call solicitation and board nomination committee selection and transition that started as of July.
"I didn’t call him the greatest of all time because of his rhetoric," Mallory responded."I called him the greatest of all time because of what he’s done in black communities."
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