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DID YOU KNOW THAT THE MAYOR OF CHARLOTTESVILLE IS AN UNAPOLOGETICLY BLACK WOMAN NAMED NIKUYAH? The mayor of Charlottesville, Va., Nikuyah Walker, has no problem talking openly about racial disparities in her city, even if that makes some people uncomfortable.

She’s the first African-American woman to hold the office of mayor. She was elected just a few months after last year’s Unite the Right rally. That event was organized by white nationalists to protest the removal of statues of Confederate generals. It turned violent, and one person was killed.

Mayor Walker says the Unite the Right rally helped expose what lies beneath her city’s quaint, well-to-do, college-town exterior. Check out her full interview today on NPR.
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