U.S. Senate history

Carol Moseley Braun, the first Black woman ever elected to the United States Senate, has released her long-anticipated memoir, Trailblazer: Perseverance in …

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

For the first time in American history, the U.S. Senate will include two Black women, as Delaware’s Lisa Blunt Rochester and Maryland’s …