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Maxine Waters: “This pandemic has made clear that the ongoing discrimination of the Freedmen descendants can literally mean the…”

On the recordJuly 26, 2022
This pandemic has made clear that the ongoing discrimination of the Freedmen descendants can literally mean the difference between life and death.
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Maxine Waters
Democratic · California

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Waters highlights the severe impact of discrimination on Freedmen descendants during the pandemic.

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