Green Partys Jill Stein Selects HumanRights Activist Ajamu Baraka as Running Mate
Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate running for President against Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, announced Monday that she has selected Ajamu Baraka, a human-rights activist and intellectual, as her prospective Vice President. Stein, a doctor turned politician who also ran for the country's highest office in 2012, described Baraka as an "activist, writer, intellectual and organizer with a powerful voice, vision, and lifelong commitment to building true political revolution" in a statement. Baraka, the founding executive director of the U.S. Human Rights Network, is known for his decades-long social-justice efforts and his opposition to the death penalty. Read More Meet Jill Stein, the Green Party Foe of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, "Ajamu Baraka is a powerful, eloquent spokesperson for the transformative, radical agenda whose time has come," Stein added. The 66-year-old presumptive nominee, who has presented herself as a third-party alternative to both the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates, is set to officially be nominated at her party's convention in Houston on Saturday.