President-elect Joe Biden’s pick to be US Ambassador to the United Nations grew up in segregated Louisiana where the local KKK regularly burned crosses in people’s yards. She says her father couldn’t read or write. And she faced adversity as she climbed the ladder at the US foreign service. The World’s Marco Werman learns why from her colleague, Johnnie Carson, a former US ambassador to Kenya.
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