Eight years ago, Blunt-Rochester first made history in Congress as the first Black person and woman elected to represent ...

Blunt Rochester, a Democrat who currently represents the at-large congressional district of Delaware, becomes the first woman ...

California’s Senate will reach gender parity, but depending on the outcome of some close contests, that could extend to the ...

Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland and Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware, both Democrats, won their Senate races on Tuesday — ...

The agreement became evident earlier this year, when a bipartisan group of female senators introduced legislation that ...

Two Black women, Laura Richardson and Akilah Weber, are on pace to become California State Senators, while Lisa Blunt-Rochester and Angela Alsobrooks have already won seats in the U.S. Senate.

California’s state Senate will be at least 50% women for the first time in history and, depending on a few undecided races, ...

What is a milestone like gender parity for, if not a moment like this?” said Susannah Delano, executive director of Close the ...

the only Black woman north of Los Angeles elected to the California Senate. Think about that: that’s darn near 40 years, ...

Angela Alsobrooks And Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester became the first Black women to be elected to the U.S. Senate the same year.

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 ...