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Hundreds of attendees packed Second Baptist Church in Long Branch, New Jersey, on Saturday night for the second Statewide Meeting for the Black Agenda.
Organized under the leadership of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, featured speakers included U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver, Terence T. Dunlap Sr., pastor of Second Baptist Church, and Rev. Charles Boyer, founder of Salvation and Social Justice. Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton and Richard T. Smith, president of the NAACP New Jersey State Conference, addressed the gathering via a prerecorded video. There was a heavy police presence outside the event…