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Everton Blair was elected chair of the Gwinnett school board and made history as its first Black and gay leader. He is also the board’s youngest chair. (Photo courtesy Blair)
The Gwinnett County school board unanimously elected Everton Blair as chair on Thursday, making history by choosing its first Black and gay member to lead it during 2021. 
As chair of the five-person Board of Education, Blair now leads a panel that oversees the largest school system in Georgia’s second-most populous county. He is one of about two-dozen LGBTQ school board members in the U.S. and apparently is the only gay school board president in the country, according to the Victory Institute.  ....

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