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The sun hadn’t yet risen over the Salomé Ureña de Henríquez school in Inwood,at the northernmost tip of Manhattan, when Carol Jenkins joined a line of approximately 20 people waiting for the polls to open.
Jenkins, or 72,a pioneering African American broadcast journalist in the 1970s and the founding president of the Women’s Media Center, said her morning had started off special. “I woke up this morning feeling my mother here, and like,‘Lets do this!’” Related: Glass ceiling watch: will America elect its first woman president? Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com