This is newsworthy primarily because they had an option otherwise: one, in fact, who had been endorsed by their outgoing President. Via @AmandaCarpenter, meet the new boss:
Terry O’Neill, 56, of Maryland defeated Latifa Lyles, 33, of Washington during the organization’s national conference here. The voting took place Saturday.
Ms. O’Neill’s spokeswoman said Sunday that the vote totals were not immediately available but that it was a “close election.”
Ms. Lyles, who is black, had said she could help give the organization, with a membership that is mostly white and over 40, a new image of youth and diversity that would appeal to younger feminists. She had been enthusiastically endorsed by Kim Gandy, who is retiring on July 20 after eight years as president of the group.
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