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KS: new p.d., with much to have to overcome

Interesting character study from the Wichita Eagle:br /br /a href="http://www.kansas.com/690/story/638833.html"span style="font-weight:bold;"Single mother perseveres to earn law degree/span/a - grit and effort anchor her lifebr /span style="font-style:italic;"br /Latina Alston is not yet 30. She has three children... She raised the children in poverty all their lives. That's about to change. Latina's story goes beyond absent fathers, food stamps and welfare checks.br /br /People at the Wichita Bar Association know that of their 1,175 members, only eight are African-American - the newest member being Latina. Earlier this month, as Sedgwick County's newest assistant public defender, she helped clear a Wichita man of charges that could have put him in prison for years...continue to full post

Full post as published by Arbitrary and Capricious on December 23, 2008 (boomark / email).