O'Malley to meet with black leaders in South Carolina next week.

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Columbia, South Carolina (CNN)Martin O'Malley will head to South Carolina early next week after being invited by the black leadership group 20/20 Leaders of America, the O'Malley campaign confirmed to CNN on Monday.

Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin, who is the city's first black mayor, and councilman Brian Newman will host the presidential candidate next Tuesday morning for a "listening session," the first in a series of events the group will host in South Carolina during the primary cycle, according to an invitation obtained by CNN. . .

This will mark the former Maryland governor's first official campaign appearance in South Carolina since he announced his presidential bid in May. He briefly paid his respects during a funeral for state Sen. Clementa Pinckney at the South Carolina statehouse in June following his death in the racially-motivated church shooting in Charleston that month.

Since officially joining the race, the former governor has focused the bulk of his campaigning efforts in Iowa.

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