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The National Congress of Black Women's founding chairs were Shirley Chisholm and Dr. C. Delores Tucker. Chisholm was an educator, author, and politician. She became the first African American woman elected in Congress in 1968 and in 1972, became the first African American woman to make a serious bid to run for President of the United States.
Throughout much of the 20th century, the area within this district was predominately white. But as a thriving black middle class emerged in the region and laws eliminating racial discrimination in housing were passed, many African Americans opted to leave Washington for Prince George's County in search of a better quality of life.
Donna Fern Edwards [1] (born June 28, 1958) is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Maryland's 4th congressional district from 2008 to 2017. The district included most of Prince George's County, as well as part of Anne Arundel County.
The Black women who organized the historic 44,000-person fundraising Zoom for Kamala Harris explain how they got the job done
As of the 2020 United States census, the district had a population of 126,356, of whom 101,304 (80.2%) were of voting age.The racial makeup of the district was 9,380 (7.4%) White, 88,836 (70.3%) African American, 721 (0.6%) Native American, 5,387 (4.3%) Asian, 13 (0.0%) Pacific Islander, 14,383 (11.4%) from some other race, and 7,545 (6.0%) from two or more races.
In 1990, Tucker, along with 15 other African American women and men, formed the African-American Women for Reproductive Freedom. [3] She was the convening founder and national chair of the National Congress of Black Women, Inc. (NCBW), having succeeded the Hon. Shirley Chisholm in 1992.
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 ]
This is a list of broadcast television stations serving Washington, D.C. in ... Ion Mystery on 66.5, Scripps News on 66.6, Jewelry Television on 66.7, HSN on 66.8 ...