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Rejection of Black Educator Angers some Mississippi Senators

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s Republican-led Senate voted Wednesday against confirming veteran educator Robert P. Taylor as state superintendent of education, angering some Black Democrats who said the rejection was at least partly because Taylor is Black and wrote years ago about the state’s racist history. The state Board of […]

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