Black Lives Matter activists to meet with Sanders on Wednesday

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is meeting with Black Lives Matter activists in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday afternoon.

Deray McKesson, a prominent Black Lives Matter activist, confirmed the tentative rendezvous on his Twitter feed Tuesday.

“We’re meeting w/ @BernieSanders tomorrow afternoon in D.C.,” McKesson tweeted. “We just confirmed it this morning.”

{mosads}McKesson offered no additional details about the planned meeting with the Democratic presidential contender.

Sanders’s campaign reportedly reached out to the group after activists affiliated with the social justice movement twice disrupted events where he was speaking. Demonstrators first interrupted a Sanders event in Phoenix last July before again protesting during an August event in Seattle.

Activists have also interrupted former Gov. Martin O’Malley (D-Md.), another 2016 contender, and met with Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.

Sanders met with the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) last week amid concerns over his outreach to African-American voters. He has vowed to pursue sweeping criminal justice reform and racial justice as part of his Oval Office bid.

Sanders currently trails Clinton in the hunt for the Democratic presidential nomination across multiple national polls, but has gained ground in early voting states.

Clinton has 44.2 percent to Sanders’ 22.6 percent, according to the latest RealClearPolitics average of samplings.