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In 1968, Shirley Chisholm became the first black woman elected to the United States Congress when she was chosen to represent New York's 12th district. Today, Congress has 21 inspiring...
Congresswoman Mia Love is running for reelection in Utah’s 4th Congressional District. Running for reelection, Mia Love, made history when she became the first Black female Republican...
More than eight-in-ten (86%) of the women of color ever elected to Congress have been Democrats. The sole Republican Black woman to serve on Capitol Hill was Rep. Mia Love of Utah, who served during the 114th (2015-16) and 115th (2017-18) Congresses.
U.S. House Rep.-elect Wesley Hunt of Texas will be one of at least five Black Republicans headed to Congress next year. Nick Wagner / ap PHOTO. When the new Congress comes into session in...
Despite an increase in Republican Black women candidates and nominees, Black women’s representation in Congress remains entirely Democratic. Each of the 26 Black women who will be serving as voting members in the 117th Congress are Democrats, making up 9.7% of all Democrats in Congress.
Their new representative would also be the second Black Republican woman to ever serve in Congress and the first Asian American woman to represent Indiana. Jennifer-Ruth Green, a frequent guest on Fox News, has raised nearly $3 million in her challenge of first-term Democratic Rep. Frank Mrvan.
But there are no Black Republican women in the House, compared with 27 Black women on the Democratic side, including some who have been powerful leaders and chairwomen wielding gavels.
Black women were 24.3% of Democratic women candidates and 7.6% of all Democratic candidates for the U.S. Senate in 2020. They were 17.4% of Republican women candidates, but just 3% of all Republicans who ran for the U.S. Senate in 2020.
“Black women are getting recognized now as incredible vote mobilizers and their work really paid off in Georgia and in other battleground states,” Smooth said. “The question now is — will some...
Jennifer McClellan, a former Virginia state senator, was sworn in on Tuesday, becoming the first Black woman to represent the commonwealth in Congress.