Young, Black and in power: Wisconsin’s lieutenant governor steps into national spotlight amid racial reckoning

When Mandela Barnes learned that police officers in Kenosha, Wisconsin, shot an unarmed black man, he reacted not just as the highest-ranking black official in the state, but as a young black man who has seen this story repeated too many times to count.When Mandela Barnes learned that police officers in Kenosha, Wisconsin, shot an unarmed black man, he reacted not just as the highest-ranking black official in the state, but as a young black man who has seen this story repeated too many times to count.