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Black Republican Senator on Baltimore Riots: ‘If You’re Hopeless, You Destroy Your Communities’

Common Ground

There aren’t many power players on Capitol Hill who know what it’s like to grow up poor and black. Senator Tim Scott opens up about his past, and how it matches today’s Baltimore.

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