Eight years ago, Blunt-Rochester first made history in Congress as the first Black person and woman elected to represent ...
Two Black women, Laura Richardson and Akilah Weber, are on pace to become California State Senators, while Lisa ...
California’s state Senate will be at least 50% women for the first time in history and, depending on a few undecided races, ...
Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland and Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware, both Democrats, won their Senate races on Tuesday — ...
Democrats Angela Alsobrooks and Lisa Blunt Rochester will become the fourth and fifth Black women to be sworn into the Senate ...
Everybody knows Kamala Harris. She’s the current Democratic candidate for president, the first Black and South Asian vice ...
Never in the Senate have two Black women served ... From 2021 to 2023, the chamber was without Black female representation until California Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed Laphonza Butler to a vacancy ...
California’s Senate will reach gender parity, but depending on the outcome of some close contests, that could extend to the ...
California Sen. Laphonza Butler is the third ... Senate and be one of 100 — but also as two of only five [Black women senators] in the history of this country — would be incredible." ...