Newark Mayor Cory Booker and Charlayne Hunter-Gault on MLK Day
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Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker speaks today at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast in Minneapolis. He was elected in 2006 and recently won a second term.
Also, Charlayne Hunter-Gault's story of becoming the first African-American woman to enter the University of Georgia. Hunter-Gault is a correspondent for NPR and spoke last summer at the Aspen Ideas Festival.
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