Ayanna Pressley: “There's an old adage in my home community that says: When everyone…”

On the recordOctober 22, 2019

There's an old adage in my home community that says: When everyone else catches a cold, Black folks catch pneumonia.

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Democratic · Massachusetts

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Ayanna Pressley: “There's an old adage in my home community that says: When everyone else catches a cold, Black folks catch pneumonia.”