Black, Latino, Asian and Native Americans flock to polls amid deadly, difficult year for brown and

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Before dawn, Dickie Fontaine, a 75-year-old retired Philadelphia school teacher, bundled up and headed out into the 40-degree chill to be among the first in line at her local polling precinct in the predominantly Black neighborhood of Mount Airy.

While she waited for doors to open, she thought about her grandparents and great-grandparents who fought for the right to vote in North Carolina.

"If they could stand out and be beaten and suffer trying to vote, I can certainly stand in line," said Fontaine, who cast her vote for former Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. "I wanted to make this personal. I wanted to be here."

In a year that has seen marginalized Americans disproportionally grapple with the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, a historic civil rights movement against systemic racism and a recession that has wiped out economic gains for Black, Latino, Asian and Native American families, many people of color exercised their hard-fought right to vote on Election Day. In interviews conducted around the nation, one sentiment prevailed regardless of political persuasion: A fierce determination to be heard.

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