Baltimore’s Progressive, Black, Millennial Mayor Is Ready to Work
Brandon Scott is the city’s youngest mayor in more than a century
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1 min readDec 9, 2020
Baltimore has just sworn in a new mayor—a progressive, Black millennial who wants to redefine the office. Thirty-six-year-old Brandon Scott is the city’s youngest mayor in more than a century.
It’s a powerful office—in the last decade, mayors have resigned in disgrace due to corruption charges—and Scott aims to curb much of that power. A member of the city council for the past nine…