The country is at long last training a spotlight on a long-unsung World War II unit of Black women, with Congress bestowing its highest honor on them and with a new musical on the way, too, to sing about their astonishing story.
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"It should have happened 50, 60 years ago. But there is now the opportunity for a recognition that these folks did all these things that were so important."
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