Adrienne Adams: “I'm the leader of the City Council, the first black speaker…”

“Yeah, Loree, you just. You just did that thing you just did that. You put it down exactly the way that it has been. Just imagine, now I'm the leader of the City Council, the first black speaker, the most leading, the first women majority in the city's history. the most diverse city council that this city has ever seen. And I am up against last year, a budget that would strip the majority of black and brown people, …” (04:27–04:34)

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