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FILE - In this Monday March 17, 2014 file photo Assembly Speaker-elect Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, leaves the Assembly after she was elected to the position at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. Atkins pledged Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020, that the state Legislature would pass a housing production bill this year. Atkins' comments came moments after the Senate failed to pass an ambitious housing bill. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

After failure, California leaders vow to pass housing bill

By ADAM BEAM - Associated Press

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick leans in to kiss Beverly Morgan-Welch, executive director of the Museum of African-American History during a ceremony to honor Zipporah Potter Atkins, the first African-American to purchase property in Boston, near where her house stood Tuesday, May 20, 2014 in Boston. Atkins bought here house in 1670 in an area on the edge of what is today known as Boston's North End. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

Marker notes Boston’s first black-owned home site

By STEVE LeBLANC - Associated Press