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Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson Honored with NNPA 2020 National Leadership Award | Dallas Weekly

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Mississippi), who began his grassroots political activism being a civil rights champion through the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) while a student at Tougaloo College, will receive the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) 2020 National Leadership Award.

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