Meet Stephen Benjamin, the most senior Black man in the White House

Mayor Stephen Benjamin

The former mayor of Columbia, South Carolina, tells theGrio he looks forward to telling the “good news” of the Biden-Harris administration as the new director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.

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