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    American Black Journal
            A Conversation w/ Wayne County Executive-elect Warren Evan
                
                    
                        
                            Season 43
                        
                    
                    
                        
                            Episode 7
                        
                    
                
            
            
            Wayne County is getting its first new County Executive in twelve years. We sit with the newly-elected leader, Warren Evans. Plus, Ken Coleman looks back at important moments in Detroit’s black history. Episode 4307.
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