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'I Think She Should Be Shot': Software Company Executive Under Fire for Racist Comments About First Black Woman Elected to UK Parliament
the first Black woman ever elected to the U.K.’s Parliament. Frank Hester of health care software company The Phoenix Partnership allegedly said about Abbott during a 2019 company meeting ...
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Shanelle Scales-Preston becomes first Black woman on the board of supervisors in Contra Costa County
Shanelle Scales-Preston was just elected as Contra Costa County’s next District 5 supervisor, making her the first African-American woman elected ... a former member of the Pittsburg City ...
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Terri Sewell becomes first Black woman to hold leadership position on influential House committee
was selected to serve as ranking member of the committee’s Oversight Subcommittee in the new Congress. Sewell, who will be the subcommittee’s top Democrat, became the first Black woman to ...
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Williamsburg City Council’s 1st Black woman talks about upbringing, goals and working for everyone
The William & Mary student joined the Williamsburg City Council this month as its newest member, continuing ... one — she’s the council’s first Black woman to serve and also the first ...
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Political trailblazer Lincoln Alexander would have turned 100 Friday and is still touching hearts
Lincoln Alexander was Canada’s first black member of Parliament, but those who met ... Lincoln Alexander Day on Jan. 21. As a Black woman and now as a student at the Lincoln Alexander School ...