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  2. Black women in American politics - Wikipedia

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    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]

  3. List of African-American United States senators - Wikipedia

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    Carol Moseley Braun entered the Senate in 1993 and was the first African-American woman in the Senate. [5] She served one term. Barack Obama entered the Senate in 2005 and, in 2008, became the first African American to be elected president of the United States. [6] Obama was still a senator when he was elected president and Roland Burris, also ...

  4. African Americans in the United States Congress - Wikipedia

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    Revels was the first black member of the Congress overall. [11] Black people were a majority of the population in many congressional districts across the South. In 1870, Joseph Rainey of South Carolina was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming the first directly elected black member of Congress to be seated. [12]

  5. Black women candidates are vying to make history in the US Senate

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    Female candidates, particularly women of color, have long had more trouble raising funds for campaigns, Laphonza Butler, D-Calif., currently the only Black woman in the Senate, told USA TODAY.

  6. In 2023, the 118th Congress was the most ethnically and racially diverse U.S. House and Senate in history. U.S. Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost (D-Fla.) was the first member of Generation Z to walk ...

  7. There are no pro-abortion rights OB-GYNs in Congress ... - AOL

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    Both women, if elected, would be the only pro-abortion rights OB-GYN physicians in Congress. Currently, Rep. Michael Burgess , R-Texas, and Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., are the only OB-GYNs in ...

  8. List of African-American United States representatives

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    Out of these, 24 states, plus U.S. Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia, have elected an African-American woman to represent them in the U.S. House. Illinois's 1st congressional district has the longest continuous streak of electing African-American representatives, a tendency that has occurred from 1928 to the present.

  9. Congress will have a record-setting number of Black members ...

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    The Congressional Black Caucus will boast a record 62 members for the next session of Congress, contributing toward the highest number of Black federal lawmakers in history, according to a post ...