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California’s Women’s March Rally Canceled For Being ‘Overwhelmingly White’ In Overwhelmingly White County

Kassy Akiva

Organizers of the Women’s March rally for Humboldt County in northern California canceled its January march over concerns that the participants would be “overwhelmingly white.”

The march was originally scheduled to take place on January 19 in Eureka but was canceled after “many conversations between local social-change organizers and supporters of the march,” one of the organizers said in a statement on the group’s Facebook page.

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