2020-08-02 00:00:00, Lisa Lerer and Sydney Ember, New York Times
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/News/Politics
/Jobs & Education/Education
/People & Society
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2715
Words/Sentence:
24
Reading Time:
18.10 min
Reading Quality:
Adept
Readability:
13th to 15th
She did the work and continues to do the work," said Angela Peoples, the director of Black Womxn For, who recently co-wrote an op-ed urging Mr. Biden to select Ms. Warren as his running mate over several Black women.
Allies say her awakening traces the arc of much of her life, with the beginnings of a worldview coalescing when she was a student at Rutgers Law School in Newark, where racial unrest several years earlier had turned the institution into a hub of civil rights activism.
She's also one of a handful of white women still under serious consideration to become Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s running mate, at a time when some Democratic leaders are pushing for more racial representation on their ticket."
More than half a century later, the young college coed, who now goes by Senator Elizabeth Warren, led the charge in Congress to require the Pentagon to rename bases that honor Confederate military leaders.
Ruth Fremson/The New York TimesWhen Liz Herring arrived at George Washington University as a freshman in 1966, she entered a capital city in the throes of the civil rights movement.
Keywords
2020 Election, Fraternities, Civil Rights, Joe Biden, Segregation, Sororites, Vice Presidents and Vice Presidency (US), Vice President US, Race and Ethnicity, Elizabeth Warren
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