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This Ferguson Activist Wants to be Missouri’s First Black Congresswoman

This Ferguson Activist Wants to be Missouri’s First Black Congresswoman

Cori Bush is a registered nurse, a pastor and a mom. After taking to the streets to protest police killings, she looked in the mirror and said, “why not politician, too?”

Rachel Lears
Mar 21, 2018
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