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Black Leadership Is Stalled At 4%. What Can American Institutions Do About It?

A man giving a presentation. (Getty Images)
A man giving a presentation. (Getty Images)

Jamal Simmons, a Here & Now Democratic political strategist, joins host Tonya Mosley to discuss why he thinks so few American institutional leaders are Black and why he thinks “staged integration” is the solution.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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