A great woman and pioneering community-focused lawmaker has passed away. Former U.S. Congresswoman Carrie Pittman Meek, the first Black person to represent Florida in Congress since the post-Civil War Reconstruction and an advocate for South Florida’s Black communities, Haitian immigrants and the working poor, died last Sunday at her home in Miami after a long illness, her family said. She […]
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