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Community Voices Heard Honored Senator Stewart-Cousins with Shirley Chisholm Lights of Freedom Award
Andrea Stewart-Cousins
December 3, 2014
(Yonkers - December 2nd) Community Voices Heard honored Senator Stewart-Cousins with a Shirley Chisholm Lights of Freedom Award, named for the first African-American woman elected to Congress. CVH has a Westchester chapter in Yonkers that empowers low-income people, predominantly women with experience on welfare, to improve their lives, their family's life and their communities.
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