Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) took a walk down memory lane this week, at the place where her political roots were first planted. Inside the library at her alma mater, Mills College in Oakland, she reminisced over her yearbook photo and a newsletter she wrote as the president of the Black student union.
Congresswoman Barbara Lee took a walk down memory lane this week, at the place where her political roots were first planted. Inside the library at her alma mater, Mills College in Oakland , she reminisced over her yearbook photo and a newsletter she wrote as the president of the Black Student Union. "I was able to receive an unbelievably good education at the same time, as I was raising two small little boys on public assistance and food stamps," said Lee.
Chisholm is played by Regina King and Christina Jackson depicts a young Barbara Lee. "It’s been the role of a lifetime in the sense of being able to play someone who has made so much change in the past 50 years," said Jackson.Lee met Jackson during filming and this week, brought the actress to the place where it all began.
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