Miranda wins five-way primary for Roxbury-based state Senate seat
Two-term state rep vows to be a voice for young people 'struggling to survive and thrive'
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STATE REP. LIZ MIRANDA, the daughter of Cape Verdean immigrants, who grew up in a troubled Roxbury neighborhood and went on to Wellesley College, will move on from the Massachusetts House to the Senate after winning Tuesday’s five-way Democratic primary for the Roxbury-based Second Suffolk Senate seat. Miranda, 42, who worked as a community organizer(...)