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Durham Will Likely Make History this Year by Electing Its First Black or Latina Woman as Mayor

Sep 15, 2021 View Original Article
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  • Politician Portrayal

    36% Negative

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50% : O'Neal seemed to have some degree of support from Schewel; in 2018, he appointed her to co-chair the city's inaugural 17-member Racial Equity Task Force, which spent nearly two years studying wealth and the economy, criminal justice, health, environmental justice, education, and public history through the lens of race before releasing last summer that called for the reform of systemic racial inequities for a healthier, more inclusive city.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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