On the recordApril 20, 2021
It was today we could for a moment exhale. Exhaled not only for black America but for America.
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msnbc.comJoyce Beatty: “It was today we could for a moment exhale. Exhaled not only for black America but for America.”
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Beatty reflected on the feeling of relief after the guilty verdict in the Chauvin trial.
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