#Black, #proud and ready to make a difference, #AlleghenyCounty's new #chief #publicdefender gets to work
Last month, #AlleghenyCounty #Executive #SaraInnamorato #appointed her to become the chief #publicdefender β the first #Black #woman to ever hold the #office.
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Black, proud and ready to make a difference, Allegheny County's new chief public defender gets to work
When Lena Bryan-Henderson was growing up in Wilkinsburg in the 1970s, her family dinner conversations frequently revolved around civil rights. βIt was table talk every evening almost β about the prejudices and the injustices that people who look like me had to endure,β she said. Then, when she was about