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Our Top 5 Stories Of 2022

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As we move into 2023, TheVillageCelebration takes one last look at 2022 by reviewing our Top 5 Stories.

1.Leading the list was a major first for African American women, the appointment of Lisa Cook to the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors.

2.We profiled a group of new activists, and readers flocked to the article featuring Kansas City’s Ryan Sorrells. 

3.“The Mink Slide” continues to build a following as the film about a brave group of African American WWII veterans and the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall’s triumph over racism is introduced to audiences nationwide.
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4.In May TheVillageCelebration contributor Byron McCauley wrote of a beloved aunt’s death by suicide in an article detailing the anguish suffered by many who experience emotional challenges and those who love them. 


5.Our Top 5 ends as it began — with a celebration of Black women.  On June 30 the first African American woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, took the oath of office. 

Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., administers the Constitutional Oath to Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson in the West Conference Room, Supreme Court Building. Dr. Patrick Jackson holds the Bible. Credit: Fred Schilling, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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