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On the recordApril 9, 2019
What are we doing to increase the number of--since this is the medical school, you are aware that there are fewer African-American men in medical school now than in 1978, there is a disparity, a significant lack of African-American men, what is the administration doing to increase the number of African-American men in medical school today?
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Tim Scott
Republican · South Carolina

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Tim Scott highlights the decline of African-American men in medical schools since 1978.

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