Newark Mayor Cory Booker and Charlayne Hunter-Gault on MLK Day

Cory Booker
Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, N.J.
Courtesy of the Westminster Town Hall Forum

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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