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Longtime PBS NewsHour correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault reflects on the first time she interviewed Nelson Mandela, who died Thursday at the age of 95. In this 1990 file photo, Hunter-Gault is seen with Mandela shortly after he was released from prison.No one could imagine what the world most famous prisoner would be like. But in February of 1990, when the African National Congress announced that Nelson Mandela would be available for interviews a mere five days after his release from prison after 27 years, dozens of us journalists from all over the world made our way to his tiny home in the sprawling, poor, black township of Soweto. Until his emergence from prison five days earlier, Mandela had not been seen publicly since he was sentenced to life for conducting an armed camp
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Voters in Florida approved a ballot measure on Tuesday that restores voting rights to citizens with felony convictions once they have completed their full sentence.The newly elected Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis opposed the measure called Amendment 4. But more than 64 percent of Florida voters voted in favor of the amendment 鈥?well above the 60 percent support t
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