By Shauna Harris
President Obama has nominated Loretta Lynch for the role Attorney General of The United States Of America. Loretta Lynch will replace Eric Holder, who announced his resignation September 25th, 2014. She studied at Harvard Law school, and is the current United States Attorney of the Eastern District of New York.
She was chosen by President Obama for that position as well, which covers a district that includes Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and Long Island.
Loretta Lynch's great-great-grandfather escaped to freedom, and re-entered slavery to marry and her great-great-grandmother.
Her grandfather, who was a pastor and sharecropper, help Blacks escape the cruelty of the Jim Crow practices of her hometown of Greensboro. Her father participated in the sit in's of the 60's, often with Loretta present.
Lynch, 55, is known for being the Brooklyn prosecutor in a high profile NYPD brutality case stemming from the 1997 assault of Haitian Immigrant named Abner Louima. The NYPD officers were accused of beating and sodomizing Louima.
