Black women in politics

Laphonza Butler, the first openly LGBTQ+ Black U.S. senator, officially left office on Monday after a historic 14-month tenure representing California in …

Shayla Favor has shattered barriers, becoming the first Black woman elected as Franklin County prosecutor on Nov. 5. Garnering 63% of the …

Dr. Wendy Osefo, a star of Bravo’s Real Housewives of Potomac and a political commentator, didn’t hold back during a recent conversation …

This fall’s U.S. Senate races hold the potential for history-making moments, with two Black women, Delaware’s Lisa Blunt Rochester and Maryland’s Angela …

On August 22, 1964, Mississippi civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer delivered a powerful speech at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic …