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Michael Morris

From Queens to the Capitol

April 26, 2022 by Michael Morris

When I was a kid, I wanted to be Barack Obama, and I promise that every black boy in my third grade class would say the same thing. I grew up a few miles outside of Atlanta, a city often called the black Mecca because there’s no other place in America where black people have […]

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