Barnes pledges to be leader for all Wisconsinites in MLK Day speech

Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes addresses a crowd at the Capitol during his inaugural address.
Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes addresses a crowd at the Capitol during his inaugural address.

Mandela Barnes says he plans be a leader for all Wisconsinites as he works to promote racial equity, education and the environment in his tenure as the state’s first African-American lt. guv.
Barnes, the second African-American elected to statewide office after former Secretary of State and civil rights leader Vel Phillips, told a crowd at UW-Madison he sees the oath of office as “an oath of dedic...

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