Who are today’s rising black political stars?

pol cory-bookerCory Booker was a highly educated (Stanford, Yale, Oxford) lawyer and community organizer before becoming the mayor of Newark, N.J. Booker went through a heated battle with Newark’s legendary civil rights era leader, Sharpe James. Booker was such an outsider to the black community that the story of the mayoral race against James became the subject of Street Fighter, an Academy Award-nominated documentary.

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