California Gov. Gavin Newsom Says He’ll Replace Dianne Feinstein With A Black Woman If She Retires

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom Says He’ll Replace Dianne Feinstein With A Black Woman If She Retires

The governor was criticized for not choosing a Black woman to succeed Vice President Kamala Harris.

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By the 1840s a number of fugitive slaves, the most prominent being Frederick Douglass, took to the lecture circuit usually appearing before abolitionist societies where they told their personal stories of bondage. The speech of Lewis Richardson, however, attracted particular attention because he

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Born in Brooklyn, New York on October 3, 1954, Alfred Charles Sharpton, Jr., is an American Baptist minister and political, social, and human rights advocate. Known as “the Wonder Boy” as a youth, he was licensed and ordained as a Pentecostal minister and toured with the gospel singer

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Lynch, John Roy (1847-1939)

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(1963) Malcolm X, “Message to the Grassroots”

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Smith, Charles Z. (1927-2016)

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Scott, Robert “Bobby” (1947- )

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Washington, Maurice E. (1956- )

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