Ajamu Baraka
Ajamu Baraka was the Green Party candidate for vice president of the United States in 2016. Jill Stein, the Green Party presidential nominee, announced on August 1, 2016, that Baraka would serve as her running mate. She described him as an "activist, writer, intellectual and organizer with a powerful voice, vision, and lifelong commitment to building true political revolution."[1]
Baraka was formally nominated for the position on August 6, 2016, at the Green Party National Convention in Houston, Texas.[2]
He is an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C.[3]
Biography
Baraka serves on the boards of the Center for Constitutional Rights, Africa Action, Latin American Caribbean Community Center, Diaspora Afrique, and the Mississippi Workers’ Center for Human Rights. He was previously a member of the boards of Amnesty International (USA) and the National Center for Human Rights Education.[3]
From 2004 to 2011, Baraka was the founding executive director of the US Human Rights Network, a nonprofit dedicated to strengthening human rights standards in the United States. He also taught political science at Clark Atlanta University and Spelman College.[3]
Baraka was honored in 1998 by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan as one of 300 human rights defenders brought to Paris to commemorate the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.[4]
Elections
2016
| U.S. presidential election, 2016 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Electoral votes | |
| Democratic | Hillary Clinton/Tim Kaine | 48.3% | 65,844,969 | 227 | |
| Republican |  Donald Trump/Mike Pence |
46.2% | 62,979,984 | 304 | |
| Libertarian | Gary Johnson/Bill Weld | 3.3% | 4,492,919 | 0 | |
| Green | Jill Stein/Ajamu Baraka | 1.1% | 1,449,370 | 0 | |
| - | Other | 1.2% | 1,684,908 | 7 | |
| Total Votes | 136,452,150 | 538 | |||
| Election results via: Ballotpedia | |||||
Note: Trump and Clinton were projected to receive 306 and 232 electoral votes, respectively. Seven electors, however, cast votes for other candidates. Read about what happened here. The results listed above are based on reports from state secretary of state offices and election boards.
See also
- Jill Stein presidential campaign, 2016
- Presidential election, 2016
- Vice presidential candidates, 2016
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ TIME, "Green Party’s Jill Stein Selects Human-Rights Activist Ajamu Baraka as Running Mate," August 1, 2016
- ↑ Green Party, "Wrap-up of the 2016 Green National Convention," August 9, 2016
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Institute for Policy Studies, "Ajamu Baraka," accessed August 2, 2016
- ↑ Woodhull Freedom Foundation, "Ajamu Baraka (VA)," accessed August 2, 2016