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Eric Holder: What He Thinks of Race in America

 
By Essence · Updated October 29, 2020
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Newly appointed and the country’s first Black Attorney General Eric Holder attended a Department of Justice Black History Month program recently. He  urged Justice Department employees to advance their duty and obligation for racial understanding throughout the country. Holder also said the United States is a “nation of cowards” when it pertains to racial issues, according to MSNBC.com.—WLW