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Scott Colom makes history with Mississippi Senate victory

Scott Colom has made history as the first Black person elected to represent Mississippi in the U.S. Senate.

Here & Now‘s Indira Lakshmanan speaks with Marvin King, a political science professor at the University of Mississippi, about Colom’s historic victory.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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