Angela Waters Austin is ‘unapologetically Black’ and fighting for racial equity in Lansing

Angela Waters Austin believes God spoke to her.

She and her team prayed and then prepared for an online Black Lives Matter forum that would include Ingham County officials, Lansing Mayor Andy Schor and others.

Waters Austin didn’t expect to have a huge role in the June 4 forum. But she heard a voice speak to her right before going live on Facebook, she said. That’s when she whispered to her team that she’d be going off script.

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