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Posted: 2024-10-14T09:00:01Z | Updated: 2024-10-14T13:13:55Z

Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday unveiled a list of policies aimed toward Black men, her latest attempt to engage a voting bloc former President Donald Trump and his campaign have attempted to court this election season.

Harris opportunity agenda for Black men includes a laundry list of policy proposals, including providing a million loans to Black entrepreneurs and others to start businesses, investing in Black male mentorship and training programs, protecting cryptocurrency assets, launching a health equity initiative focusing on diseases that disproportionately impact Black men like diabetes and prostate cancer, and legalizing recreational marijuana for Black men to participate in the burgeoning industry.

The policies draw from stops on her nationwide economic opportunity tour, during which she listened to Black men during visits to predominantly Black cities like Atlanta, Charlotte and Detroit.

The policy rollout comes in the middle of a campaign swing focused in part on Black men. Harris met with Black farmers in North Carolina on Sunday and will participate in a radio town hall in Detroit hosted by The Breakfast Club host Charlamagne Tha God on Tuesday.

Black men care about economics. A lot of African American men specifically care about the cost of inflation, health care, housing, all of those things, said Quentin Fulks, the Harris-Walz campaigns deputy principal manager. When it comes down to it, another thing thats always underlying data is: How do you create generational wealth? How do you begin to build? A number of these policies attempt to answer that.