On May 7, 2017, following Emmanuel Macron’s election as President of France, conversations about the legacy of Christiane Taubira, France’s first Black female Minister of Justice, dominated political discourse. Though she had stepped down the year prior, Taubira’s influence lingered. She had spearheaded the landmark law recognizing slavery as a crime against humanity and championed marriage equality. Her work symbolized a major shift in French politics, where Afro-descendant leaders began challenging traditional structures of exclusion and pushing for broader social reforms.
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