When Ms. Lee, 76, was first elected to Congress in 1998, the House had 11 Black women in office, and only one Black woman served in the Senate. With the swearing-in of Jennifer McClellan as the ...

On Jan 20. 2021, Vice President Kamala Harris became the first Black woman to hold the nation's second highest office, but Black women in America are still underrepresented at all levels of ...

Parker’s nomination comes after a hotly contested Democratic primary, and her political success is part of a bigger, national trend — Black women running for office. WHYY thanks our sponsors — become ...