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Maxine Moore Waters (née Carr; born August 15, 1938) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for California's 43rd congressional district since 1991. . The district, numbered as the 29th district from 1991 to 1993 and as the 35th district from 1993 to 2013, includes much of southern Los Angeles, as well as portions of Gardena, Inglewood and Torra
The United States House of Representatives has had 179 elected African-American members, of whom 173 have been representatives from U.S. states and six have been delegates from U.S. territories and the District of Columbia. [1] The House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral United States Congress, which is the legislative ...
Cori Anika Bush (born July 21, 1976) [1] is an American politician, nurse, pastor, and Black Lives Matter activist serving as the U.S. representative for Missouri's 1st congressional district, since 2021. [2][3] The district includes all of the city of St. Louis and most of northern St. Louis County. A member of the Democratic Party, Bush ...
This is a list of individuals serving in the United States House of Representatives (as of September 23, 2024, the 118th Congress). [1] The membership of the House comprises 435 seats for representatives from the 50 states, apportioned by population, as well as six seats for non-voting delegates from U.S. territories and the District of Columbia.
Joyce Beatty. Joyce Marie Beatty (/ ˈbeɪti / BAY-tee; née Birdsong, March 12, 1950) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Ohio's 3rd congressional district since 2013, and as chair of the Congressional Black Caucus from 2021 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, Beatty represented the 27th district in the Ohio ...
Regina King stars as Shirley Chisholm, America's first Black congresswoman, in Netflix's new movie “Shirley." Learn everything there is to know about the film.
Columbia University (MA) Shirley Anita Chisholm (/ ˈtʃɪzəm / CHIZ-əm; née St. Hill; November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005) was an American politician who, in 1968, became the first black woman to be elected to the United States Congress. [1] Chisholm represented New York's 12th congressional district, a district centered in Bedford ...
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]