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Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 August 2020: Priscilla Schwartz, a Sierra Leonean lawyer is the first woman to serve as Attorney General and Minister of Justice in Sierra Leone. Her appointment was greeted as a statement of intent by many - that Bio’s “New Direction” was serious about
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What California Knows About Kamala Harris — The Sacramento Observer
(CALMATTERS) - More than any other vice presidential contender in a generation, Kamala Harris’ biography is singularly Californian.  Born and bussed to school in Berkeley, tested by San Francisco’s cut-throat municipal politics and propelled onto the national stage as the state’s top law
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Fair Housing Still a Distant Journey for Black America — The Sacramento Observer
(TriceEdneyWire.com) - Public pressure to restore a key HUD rule has united civil rights, public and private sector stakeholders ina swelling and nearly daily drumbeat of concern calling for fair housing to be supported and HUD’s replacement rule be rescinded. On July 23 the rule known
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Viewpoint: Kamala Harris VP pick 'symbolic and substantive'
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Opinion: Picking Kamala Harris makes history, but will it make a difference in November?
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Gov. Tim Walz signs executive orders on COVID-19, extending peacetime emergency -
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Joe Biden 2020 for President Campaign Commits Major Ad Dollars to Black-Owned Media - Los Angeles Sentinel
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Black cheerleader quits squad after Alabama team poses with Confederate shirt - TheGrio
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