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Pelosi Calls Visit to Ghana Transformative'

Stacey Knott

   ACCRA, GHANA --Four hundred years after the first ship of enslaved
   Africans sailed to America,U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi condemned
   the "grave evil" of slavery in a speech Wednesday to Ghana's
   parliament.

   The California Democrat, who was the first U.S. House speaker to
   address Ghana's lawmakers, said herand her colleagues' visit was about
   acknowledging the past while also looking to the future.

   Pelosi and her delegation, which included members of theU.S.
   Congressional Black Caucus--including RepresentativesIlhanOmar and John
   Lewis--arrived Sunday in Ghana. They have since met withGhana's
   President Nana Akufo-Addoandhave visited Elmina Castle and the "Door of
   No Return" at Cape Coast Castle. Both wereslave forts where people were
   shipped in chains to the New World.

   Ghana has marked 2019 as "The Year of Return" to encourage people of
   African descent to visit the nation.

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