UNITED KINGDOM’S FIRST BLACK WOMAN LAWMAKER ‘DISMAYED’ BY PROSPECT OF BEING BARRED FROM RUNNING FOR LABOUR
Britain’s first Black woman lawmaker, Diane Abbott, said on Wednesday she was dismayed the opposition Labour Party looked set to bar her as a candidate in the July 4 election over comments she made more than a year ago about Jews and racism. Abbott, 70, was first elected to parliament for Labour in 1987 and, as the country’s longest…