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Is the new pope Black? The answer isn’t so simple
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Is the new pope Black? The answer isn’t so simple
Did the Catholic church just choose its first African American pope? That question set Black social media on fire in the hours following the election of Robert Prevost, the first American to become pontiff in the Catholic Church’s 2,000-year history.
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