“We’re going to be in his face,” said Congressional Black Caucus chairwoman, U.S. Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y. Donald Trump’s ...

WASHINGTON ‒ The number of Black women elected to Congress has remained steady in recent years, but a record number of Black women have served in state legislatures this year, often the pipeline to ...

The 119 th Congress that will be sworn in next year will have a record number of Black lawmakers, including Angela Alsobrooks, the first Black woman to be elected a U.S. Senator from Maryland. Much of ...

GEORGIA (WALB) - On this day in 1992, Cynthia McKinney made history as the first African-American woman elected to Congress from Georgia. McKinney followed in her father’s footsteps, serving in the ...

Mia Love, the former US Representative who broke ground as the first Republican Black woman in Congress, has died three years after being diagnosed with cancer. Love received her damning glioblastoma ...

Virginia Democratic state Sen. Jennifer McClellan cruised to an easy victory in Tuesday's special election for Virginia's 4th Congressional District, making her the first Black woman to represent the ...

For the last four years, the U.S. Mint issued five new quarters each year with an American woman on the reverse side. Former Rep. Barbara Lee, (D-Calif.-12), introduced the Circulating Collectible ...