Former Boston city councilor and current candidate for state attorney general Andrea Campbell speaks
June 4 during the state’s Democratic Party convention in Worcester, Mass. Ms. Campbell, who hopes to succeed Maura Healey as attorney general, would be the first Black woman to hold that post.
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2022 could be a political watershed for Massachusetts women
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