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Promises and pride: Scott Colom rejoices with young and old on historic night in Mississippi

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The Guardian US FIRST 56m ago Promises and pride: Scott Colom rejoices with young and old on historic night in Mississippi
When he finally arrived at his victory party, Colom walked out to T.I.’s Let ‘Em Know. The audience, still galvanized even after hours of standing, roared About a thousand people gathered on the Woodworth Chapel Lawn at Tougaloo College, a historic black college in Jackson. A DJ played classic southern line dance tunes and much of the crowd obliged, dancing while they waited for Scott Colom, Mississippi’s new senate-elect, to arrive. All of the Divine 9, a nickname for the National Pan-Hellenic