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In 2024, two African-American women won their United States Senate races: ... This page was last edited on 12 December 2024, at 14:24 (UTC).
From 1979 to 1993, there were no black members of the United States Senate. Between 1993 and 2010, three black members of the Illinois Democratic Party would hold Illinois's Class 3 Senate seat at different times. Carol Moseley Braun entered the Senate in 1993 and was the first African-American woman in the Senate. [5] She served one term.
Never in the Senate have two Black women served at the same time. Harris was only the second Black woman and first South Asian woman to serve in the Senate, before she was elected vice president. From 2021 to 2023, the chamber was without Black female representation until California Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed Laphonza Butler to a vacancy ...
In 2021, as stated by the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, 27 Black women will serve in the 117th Congress, doubling the number of Black women to serve in 2011. [36] In 2014, Mia Love was the first black woman to be elected to Congress for the Republican Party. [37]
It could be 2024 and the largest number of Black women to serve at one time is only two. It should be more.” ... There is one Black woman in the Senate. A Black woman has never been elected ...
Democratic Delaware Senate candidate state Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester speaks during an election night watch party Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Pamela Smith)
They’ll make history as the fourth and fifth Black women to serve in the U.S. Senate—and the only two to serve together at the same time.
The two Democrats are also projected to be the first Black women elected to the Senate from their states. Blunt Rochester, who was Delaware's first Black female House member, is projected to ...