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Breaking Barriers: Women Over Dinner Hosts Transformative Event Inside NY Correctional Facility, Empowering Incarcerated Women Through Connection and Dialogue

BEDFORD HILLS, NY, UNITED STATES, December 9, 2024 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- Women Over …

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On October 1, 2001, President George W. Bush nominated Mattie R. Sharpless to be the next United States Ambassador to the Central African Republic. After confirmation by the U.S. Senate, Sharpless was at her post in the nation’s capital at Bangui by mid-December 2001. Sharpless served in Bangui

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(1879) Robert J. Harlan, “Migration is the Only Remedy for Our Wrongs”

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Ford, Harold Jr. (1970- )

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(1860) Frederick Douglass, “the Constitution of the United States: Is It Pro-Slavery or Anti-slavery?”

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(1952) Charlotta Bass, “Acceptance Speech for Vice Presidential Candidate of the Progressive Party”

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