Commission on Presidential Debates Asked to Add Debates Moderated by Journalists of Color

The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies sent a letter to Janet Brown, the Executive Director of the Commission on Presidential Debates, with concerns that the commission did not select any journalists of color to moderate any of the presidential debates being broadcast this year. The Joint Center asked the commission to schedule additional presidential debates moderated by journalists with large audiences of African-Americans, Latinos, Asian-Americans, Native Americans and other people of color.