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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Eric Garcia

Black women are the backbone of the Democratic Party. Kamala Harris moved them to the foreground

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In 1964, Fannie Lou Hamer, the head of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, spoke in stark detail about how she was brutally beaten in a police cell for seeking the right to vote.

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