Black History Month Spotlight Malcom Kenyatta

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jolisboba, Ninetynine Rosergrond Morning Show, Roxy Romeo, Mother Nos, and
Mikey Dredd seven eight right now high of thirty degrees
each and every day around seven oh five, between seven
oh five and sevent ten, Mother's.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Black History Fact, Good Morning. Let's start with the first fact.
In nineteen sixty eight, after a long bitter battle with
the courts, led by activist cso b More, four boys
become the first black students to enroll at Girard College.
In nineteen eighty, Joseph Coleman becomes Phillies' first black City

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Council president. In nineteen eighty three, W Wilson Good defeats
former city Mayor Frank Rizzo in the Democratic primary and
Republican John Egan in the general election to become Philadelphia's
first black mayor. In nineteen eighty four, Robert NC. Nicks,

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Junior becomes Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, the
first black chief justice of any state's high es court
and last, but not least, Pennsylvania's one hundred and eighty
first House District, which serves a population of more than
sixty thousand residents in Philadelphia County, has been represented by

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Malcolm king YadA since twenty nineteen. Along with being the
first openly black gay man to be elected to serve
in the General Assembly, king Yata is also one of
the youngest members. He holds various of the leadership roles,
including Secretary of the Philadelphia House Delegation, and is part
of the Governor's Task Force on suicide prevention that is

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Black History Month Spotlight