Meet Four Black Women Inspired to Run for Minnesota State Senate by George Floyd's Death
Gillespie is one of four Black women running in the state’s Democratic–Farmer–Labor primary for Minnesota State Senate on August 11. Like Alston Fizer , all of these women have long been civically engaged and connected to the communities they now seek to serve in an official elected capacity."When George Floyd was murdered, it just hit me differently,” Coleman said.
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