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Ben Crump Heralded as Black America’s Attorney General

By Natalie Jackson, Special to the Houston Forward Times Momentous events can occur in an instant, but more often they emerge after a long build-up. The explosion of protests all over the world was such a moment following the George Floyd killing. And Ben Crump who has been called the African American family emergency plan

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