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Iowa Independent Q&A: ‘From the Hood to the Hill’ With State Rep. Wayne Ford

By Dana Boone 2/27/08

FADE IN:
A Washington, D.C., street corner:
The bus is coming, and a young Wayne Ford and his friends are waiting, ready to rob someone. He’s voted “most likely not to succeed” by his high school classmates in 1969.
Rochester, Minn.:
A football scholarship whisks him from a predominantly black city to the Midwest to attend Rochester Junior College. [...]

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