2018 Black History Month Edition
Readers, Please enjoy the Black History Edition of our Envision Equity newsletter. This edition celebrates and recognizes black woman that have shaped and molded our world into a better place. As a reader, you will have access to photos from events that embody the purpose of this newsletter. We hope you enjoy, share, and contribute to the newsletter. Lastly, remember to Envision Equity.
Readers,
Please enjoy the Black History Edition of our Envision Equity newsletter. This edition celebrates and recognizes black woman that have shaped and molded our world into a better place.
As a reader, you will have access to photos from events that embody the purpose of this newsletter.
We hope you enjoy, share, and contribute to the newsletter. Lastly, remember to Envision Equity.
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Born on May 21, 1959, in Greensboro, North Carolina,<br />
Loretta Lynch went on to earn her degree from Harvard<br />
Law School. She worked as a litigator for a private<br />
law firm before becoming a prosecutor for the U.S.<br />
Attorney's office in New York's Eastern District,<br />
eventually making news as a senior prosecutor<br />
for the infamous 1997 Abner Louima policebrutality<br />
case. She served as U.S. attorney under<br />
the administrations of presidents Bill Clinton and<br />
Barack Obama, and in 2014 was nominated by<br />
President Obama to be U.S. attorney general,<br />
succeeding Eric Holder. After a long delay, in April<br />
2015 she was confirmed and sworn in, thus becoming<br />
the first African-American woman to hold the position.<br />
In 1999, Lynch served as one of the senior<br />
prosecutors in the high-profile case of Abner<br />
Louima, a Haitian immigrant who was beaten<br />
and sodomized after being taken into police<br />
custody in Brooklyn. Coordinating strategies<br />
that included surprise testimony from police<br />
witnesses, Lynch and her team were able to<br />
secure a conviction for officer Justin Volpe.<br />
Lynch married Stephen Hargrove, who<br />
works behind the scenes at the cable<br />
channel Showtime, in 2007. She has two<br />
stepchildren.<br />
Diversity, Equity, and Poverty Programs Celebrates <strong>Black</strong> <strong>History</strong><br />
Loretta Lynch<br />
1959-<br />
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