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Former speaker Nancy Pelosi at the unveiling ceremony for the Joseph H Rainey Room on Capitol Hill in Washington. Rainey was the first black person to serve in the US House. AFP
Former speaker Nancy Pelosi at the unveiling ceremony for the Joseph H Rainey Room on Capitol Hill in Washington. Rainey was the first black person to serve in the US House. AFP
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Hussein Ibish is a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute and a US affairs columnist for The National
10 January, 2023