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White House Correspondent 🇺🇸 Managing Editor of Politics @theGrio l @ColumbiaJourn + @Morehouse 🎓 email: gerren @thegrio .com

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Gerren Keith Gaynor
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Here’s a recap of my trip this week to my alma mater @Morehouse in Atlanta, Georgia with @VP Harris for her “Fighting For Our Freedoms” college tour. READ MORE:
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2 years
.⁦ @JanelleMonae at #BETAwards : “Fuck you, Supreme Court.”⁩
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Is Kavanaugh worth the political fight for Republicans when there’s a whole list of other qualified judges? What is it about this particular candidate that he must be confirmed at all costs? #KavanaghHearing
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Touching moment between @VP Harris and @SenBooker while @POTUS signs Emmett Till Antilynching Act at White House ceremony. The two senators notably sponsored the bill when they worked together in the U.S. Senate.
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2 years
Finally got to sit in @thegrio ’s White House press briefing seat 🇺🇸✊🏾. Still waiting on my chance to get my question though 🙋🏾‍♂️
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2 years
We need more of this honesty from white people. It’s just unfortunate it always takes being personally impacted for them to see racism for what it is. Still, kudos for Prince Harry.
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R.S. Locke / Royal Suitor
2 years
“I went into this incredibly naive. I had no idea the British press was so bigoted. Hell, I was probably bigoted before the relationship with Meghan…I didn’t see what I now see.” #PrinceHarry ’s awakening as part of an interracial couple isn’t uncommon.
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I hope people REALLY listen to this speech. Set your ego aside, and let your heart feel what we all know to be true ❤️ #Oscars #JoaquinPhoenix
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Proud of @AndrewGillum for sharing his truth. Men, especially Black men, are not afforded the liberty of actualizing their sexuality bc of societal shame. I hope he helps break the mold in politics and beyond. Men who are bi/fluid need to know they're not alone and that it's OK.
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4 years
Um, can we just give @DrJasonJohnson a round of applause for his fantastic guest hosting on #AMJOY ?! I want more. Bravo, @theGrio fam!
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1 year
Historic moment at the @WhiteHouse as @POTUS welcomes Gen. Brown, his appointee as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff with @VP and @SecDef . If confirmed, it would mark the first time in history that the top 2 Pentagon positions are occupied by African Americans. @theGrio
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2 years
Whew. @EricaCobb left no crumbs.
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A read. Whew. #HarryandMeghan
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3 months
“I hear you’re free on Wednesdays” is nasty work 😆
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Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020. Since then, he hasn’t shown up for a debate. Now he’s acting like he wants to debate me again. Well, make my day, pal.
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What a big day for the LGBTQIA community 🏳️‍🌈at the White House press briefing today: 🙎🏾‍♀️Black queer Deputy Press Secretary @KJP46 👱🏼‍♂️Gay Transportation Secretary @PeteButtigieg As a Black queer journalist covering politics in D.C., this gives me hope and makes me proud! 🇺🇸
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3 years
Today wasn’t my first time at @WhiteHouse press briefing room 🇺🇸, but it was my first time on official correspondent duties as stand-in for @AprilDRyan 👑 — Secretary Mayorkas and Jen Psaki didn’t answer my questions, but I’m still grateful 🙏🏾✊🏾
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Gerren Keith Gaynor
5 years
Demi Lovato just had a MOMENT. What a raw moment of honesty in song that was! Music is truly healing and unifying. #Grammys
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6 years
TMZ is reporting that Cardi B hurled a shoe at Nicki Minaj after approaching her at #NYFW party. She was allegedly escorted by security.
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Tomorrow, @potus will travel to Selma to commemorate the 58th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. Earlier this week, @PressSec noted the last time Biden visited Selma was in 2019, he accompanied John Lewis. “It was an honor for him to do that,” Jean-Pierre told @thegrio .
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2 years
Legend.
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remember when 23-year-old lady gaga perfectly shutting down a sexist question? iconic.
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5 years
Happy Birthday, Mr. President @BarackObama . After two heartbreaking mass shootings in less than 24 hours, we could not miss your leadership any more than a day like this. You weren’t perfect, but you cared for humanity in ways this country took for granted.
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6 years
Jeff Hardy is back?! I think I may have to return to watching my teenage obsession.
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2 years
The Buffalo gunman who murdered 10 people in a hate-filled mass shooting reportedly wrote online about replacement theory — that white people are at risk of being replaced by Black and Brown people. A theory often pushed by Fox News’ Tucker Carlson without repercussion
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Black men unable to recognize their toxic masculinity is as dangerous as white people not owning their white privilege. It’s all destructive and does not add value to human lives, and causes pain and suffering.
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. @PressSec Karine Jean-Pierre, who is of Haitian descent and was born in France, shows off a little bit of her French at the @WhiteHouse press briefing as the Biden-Harris administration welcomes French President Macron and his wife. KJP: “Get into the spirit, folks!”
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6 years
Taraji fails to realize there’s no #MuteHarveyWeinstein movement because #MuteRKelly was a specific movement/organization/hashtag led by black women. That does not mean Weinstein himself hasn’t been muted. I think it’s clear his career is over. She was being unnecessary.
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I can’t breathe 😭😭😭
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Great job @royal_suitor 👌🏾
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3 years
OPINION: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s recent New York City tour showcased why service is universal. ✍🏾 R.S. Locke @royal_suitor
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While House Republicans gear up to launch investigations into the Biden-Harris administration in the new year, @POTUS and @VP have announced trips to Kentucky and Chicago to tout many of the economic rollouts of landmark legislation signed into law last year. 2023 is underway.
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6 months
SCOOP: Biden-Harris campaign hires Jasmine Harris, former Schumer staffer, as director of Black media to better reach Black voters
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Gerren Keith Gaynor
3 months
It was a personal honor to meet and interview 97-year-old Ms. Opal Lee, who received the Presidential #MedalofFreedom from President Biden during Friday’s @WhiteHouse ceremony. To literally kneel before history in the house that enslaved Black ancestors built? No words.
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I recently spoke with ⁦ @PressSec ⁩ Karine Jean-Pierre about Biden actions that Black Americans can be thankful for this holiday season 🦃🍽️🙏🏾 Read more @theGrio . ⁦ @WhiteHouse ⁩ ⁦ @POTUS ⁩ ⁦ @VP
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7 years
Meghan McCain got SHOT DOWN for repeating right-wing LIE about Elizabeth Warren on #TheView
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6 years
A Black American bishop officiating the British royal wedding of a Black ‘princess,’ referencing slavery and quoting the words of MLK, who transformed the world with radical speech of love despite the hate that was (still is) ever so present...just wow! #royalwedding
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4 years
A Morehouse Man is going to the U.S. Senate! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 @ReverendWarnock 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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7 years
When you put out bad energy, it will surely come back to smack you in the face. Don't ever think you're too good not to learn the hard way.
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SCOOP: Biden-Harris campaign taps Trey Baker, former Biden 2020 campaign national director for African-American outreach, to join 2024 reelection team @BidenHQ @DNC @joebiden @KamalaHarris @paynedc
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2 years
Moments ago, during the swearing-in ceremony for Brazil Ambassador Elizabeth Bagley, I asked @VP about the riots in Brazil. Harris said, Brazil: “Well, let's be clear. This was an obvious and clear attack on a democratic process. And we condemn it.”
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. @VP Harris is about to host a bilateral meeting with the Vice President of Nigeria @ProfOsinbajo inside the VP ceremonial office. The meeting comes after the U.S. released its “new vision” for subsaharan Africa early last month.
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@coalitionbuildr @theGrio @MsLaToshaBrown “We believe that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will win this race. We believe that there’s a path to victory, and we all know that the path to victory will entail the active participation and dedication of Black women,” @donnabrazile told @theGrio .
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3 years
There’s a reason why @Ashanti trends every time she steps out. The woman is just breathtaking. Not to mention, she’s positive vibes always.
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Gerren Keith Gaynor
4 years
@marclamonthill ⁩ said what so many need to hear on the #Boosie controversy. Sexual violence and toxic masculinity are NEVER to be defended. If you're defending Boosie's disturbing parenting remarks, this is for you
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@coalitionbuildr @theGrio . @MsLaToshaBrown told @theGrio of Dem efforts to oust Biden: “I don’t put my life on the line every day for a small group of elite Dems to make a decision when we worked our asses off really engaging people … Not only is it not acceptable, it’s really anti-democratic.”
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7 years
Pisces season has officially commenced. Shout out to some of fave fellow Pisces @fatbellybella @IAMQUEENLATIFAH @JheneAiko @rihanna
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3 years
Cheers to the queen @AprilDRyan on 25 years as a White House correspondent 👸🏾🎉🐐🇺🇸
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“It would have a devastating effect on how Black women see the Democratic Party as the most viable option for us,” activist Melanie L. Campbell ( @coalitionbuildr ) told @theGrio . “We’re under attack in so many ways. It would be a betrayal that would have negative consequences.”
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2 years
The fact that Megan Thee Stallion’s creditability was ever called into question is disgusting. We have a long way to go before we create safe spaces for Black women, who the world, and this country especially, owes so much to.
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2 years
On @WhiteHouse pool duty for @VP ’s roundtable with Latina state legislators and leaders. “Latina leaders across America frontlines leading on this issue.”
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What a day to be on pool duty! Cherelle, wife of Brittney Griner after release: “BG’s not here to say this, but I will gladly speak for her behalf and say that BG and I will remain committed to the work of getting every American home, including Paul, whose family’s in our hearts”
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3 years
I’m sorry, the land of the what now?
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3 years
Alabama GOP Gov. Kay Ivey could’ve used federal Covid money to address mental health, homelessness or public health impacts of the pandemic but instead she’s using millions to build more prisons — a population that is majority Black.
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@RepJeffries ⁩ opens up to @thegrio ’s ⁦ @AprilDRyan ⁩ about last week’s Capitol attack, saying he was prepared to fight back — “If it's on, it's on”
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4 years
Deeply humbled to announce I’ve returned home as the new Managing Editor at @theGrio ! Onward and upward 📝 🌟🙌🏾
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3 years
Beyoncé and Jay Z just look like MONEY. #GRAMMYs
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6 years
#TheFour judges picking Whitney Reign over Ali Caldwell is so typical. Guess it pays to fit a standard of beauty with a DECENT voice. Don't we have enough of that? Diddy said it himself: Ali has "one of the best voices I've ever heard."
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3 years
I am so proud of ⁦ @theGrio ⁩ for landing this interview with ⁦ @VP #KamalaHarris ! I’m even more proud to be the editor of the Queen, the great ⁦ @AprilDRyan ⁩! 🙌🏾 👸🏾Phenomenal work ✊🏾
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Whew! God bless @AOC for this powerful, heartfelt delivery. Thank you for humanizing the LGBTQ community in a way that gets to the heart of what’s at stake when we allow indoctrinated bigotry to go unchecked.
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President Biden @POTUS awards Sergeant Kendrick Simpo of the Houston Police Department with Medal of Valor @theGrio
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. @POTUS : “To fully honor Dr. King, we have to pay tribute to Mrs. Coretta Scott King who we dearly miss. She led the movement to create a King holiday and so much more.”
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Congrats to my friend and colleague @AprilDRyan for this MAJOR move! 🥹🙏🏾
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MSNBC Public Relations
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. @AprilDRyan , Washington Bureau Chief and White House Correspondent for @theGrio , joins @MSNBC as a contributor. Ryan, the longest-serving Black woman in the White House Press Corps, will appear across the network sharing her latest reporting and analysis from Washington, D.C.
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This is what happens when a Black woman simply is doing her job and dares to ask questions about Black America. This is should not be normalized in our country.
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Eddie Scarry
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Good god someone needs to put April Ryan out of her misery.
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Vice President Kamala Harris ( @vp ) is set to participate in a moderated talk with ⁦ @chrissyteigen ⁩ about reproductive health ahead of the anniversary the Dobbs decision. @theGrio is live on the scene.
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Harris is talking directly to Black men as she prosecutes the case against Trump My latest for @theGrio about @vp ’s efforts to get the word out about what she and @potus have done to address racial disparities in the U.S. economy.
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2 years
During today’s @WhiteHouse press briefing, I asked @PressSec about the frustration in Black communities of continuous cases of police brutality like that of #TyreNichols in Memphis and the lack of action in Congress to pass the George Floyd Policing Act. Read more on @theGrio .
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Ya'll don't deserve @StaceyPlaskett . She is undefeated on this impeachment floor. #TrumpImpeachmentTrial
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Sparkle’s career was pretty much destroyed because she chose to stand up to R. Kelly and do what was right. I think it’s only right history repays her for being the strong woman she is, and that we support her by downloading her new song #WeAreReady . #SurvivingRKelly
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“A Black man from one of the most racist states … is now having to defend democracy in the greatest Democracy known to man – it’s kind of ironic,” Jan. 6 select committee chair ⁦ @BennieGThompson tells ⁦ @theGrio ⁩’s @AprilDRyan
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. @ninaturner to me for @theGrio on Ohio primary race: “The people of this district deserve a fighter that is not going to sell out to big-money interests. My only interest are the people in this district..suffering the most under the weight of poverty.”
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@WhipClyburn has stepped in as broker in collapsing negotiations on the George Floyd policing act between Dems and Republican Sen. Tim Scott. He exclusively tells @theGrio ’s @AprilDRyan he’s doing everything he can to get negotiators “to a good place.”
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In my latest report for ⁦ @theGrio ,⁩ Senator ⁦ @CoryBooker ⁩ during an NAACP meeting defended President Biden’s Black agenda and urged Black voters to show up at the polls in 2022. Without voters, he said, “we will get decimated.”
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Stephen Benjamin on being top senior Black man in White House My latest report for ⁦ @theGrio ⁩⁩ with White House Director of the Office of Public Engagement ⁦ @SteveBenjaminSC ⁩.
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Shalanda Young confirmed as first Black woman White House budget director: ‘History in the making’ Exclusively for @thegrio , ⁦ @StaceyPlaskett ⁩ ⁦ @RepBarbaraLee ⁩ ⁦ @dgravesjr ⁩ praised Young for her historic making confirmation.
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6 years
John Gray is currently on CNN defending his meeting with 45. He says he believes God wanted him there. Why do people put EVERYTHING on God? Maybe it's really your thirst for power?
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3 years
@AprilDRyan was shaking the table! As any journalist should ✊🏾
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theGrio.com
3 years
There is growing concern among Democrats that voting rights is not a pressing issue for the White House. @Bakari_Sellers tells our @AprilDRyan he believes VP Harris' portfolio of policy issues is "trash" and questions whether Biden has armed her with tools for success.
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Beyond proud of what ⁦ @AprilDRyan ⁩ has achieved. She is living history. I am honored to be a part of this chapter of her remarkable story. Tonight we’re celebrating her 25 years as a White House correspondent and ⁦ @theGrio ⁩’s briefing seat!
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Happiest birthdays to my dear friend and @theGrio colleague, THEE @AprilDRyan ! 🥳 🎂 It is an honor to work alongside this living, breathing journalism institution. The longest serving Black female @WhiteHouse correspondent and the most vibrant person you will ever encounter!
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A very powerful reflection on the police killing of Ma’Khia Bryant. So honest and transparent. Thank you ⁦ @DrStaceyPatton ⁩ for sharing your words with ⁦ @theGrio ⁩.
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There's a lot of news coverage on President #Biden 's #BBB framework, but little reporting on what's specifically in it for Black communities. Thankfully @theGrio 's got you covered! Read @AprilDRyan 's report on the hard numbers ($$$) for Black America:
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I want to know if @VH1 and #LHHH execs are going to hold #HazelE accountable for evoking violence and hatred. Stop rewarding bad behavior.
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Gerren Keith Gaynor
4 years
For #PrideMonth  , we’ve launched a very special episode of @theGrio ’s @DearCulturePod . Thank you to @Lavernecox , @IamGMJohnson and @dyllonburnside for lending your voices and all the work you do for our community! It was a pleasure speaking to each of you ❤️🏳️‍🌈
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In a statement to @theGrio , ⁦ @TamikaDMallory ⁩ said, “Tonight was a good night and an affirmation of the power of organizing…In honor of Breonna, Daniel Cameron lost with a mandate.”
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