Austin Recounts Childhood Struggles With Racism in University Address Focused on Military Inclusion
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FAYETTEVILLE, North Carolina — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin stood before the graduating students of Fayetteville State University on Saturday, the first Black person to lead the Pentagon speaking to the latest class at a historically Black college. Among the graduates to hear Austin’s commencement address were 17 about to become newly minted second lieutenants from […]