LEWISTON — Growing up poor and fatherless on the mean streets of Newark, N.J., John Jenkins could easily have wound up in a gang, in jail — or dead. Instead, he became Maine’s first black state senator. How Jenkins beat the odds to also attend… Read More
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Overcoming poverty’s odds > Maine’s first black senator began life poor, fatherless