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Of the Fortune 250, there are only seven CEOs that are minorities, and of the thousands of publicly traded companies today, thousands, only two are chaired by black women, and you're looking at one of them, the same one who, not too long ago, was nearly mistaken for kitchen help.

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For nearly two decades now, the news has been bad and the images have been haunting.

With an average depth of the oceans of 4,000 meters, in fact, the high seas covers and provides nearly 90 percent of the habitat for life on this Earth.

It's a scene that played out in nearly all of our families.

That is the magnitude of the sacrifice that had to have happened in nearly all of our families just for us to be here.

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