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Harris was the second African-American woman to serve in the Senate, and, in 2020, was elected as the first female vice president of the United States. In 2021, Raphael Warnock of Georgia was elected as the first African-American Democrat to represent a former Confederate state in the Senate.
The Democratic Party has taken heat for not backing Black female candidates in competitive, statewide races, but in November, voters could double the number of Black women ever elected to...
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Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), Prince George County, Maryland, Executive Angela Alsobrooks and Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) are all running for open Senate seats and hope to serve there alongside one another.
Newly elected Raphael Warnock is only the 11th Black US senator since the Senate convened for the first time in 1789. And only two of those have been women.
WASHINGTON ‒ California Sen. Laphonza Butler is the lone African American woman in the Senate and only the third Black woman to ever serve in the chamber. Six months into the job, the...
With Vice President Kamala Harris at the top of the ticket and Senate seats open, Democrats could for the first time send two Black women to the chamber.
Angela Alsobrooks and Lisa Blunt Rochester, two Black women running for the U.S. Senate, reflected on their shared journeys and friendship in a recent article in Elle.Angela Alsobrooks is running for Senate in Maryland, while Lisa Blunt Rochester seeks reelection in Delaware. If both win their respective elections, it will mark the first time two Black women serve in the Senate simultaneously.
