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Historian Lorissa Rinehart visited the University of Georgia as the featured speaker at the Jeannette Rankin Legacy Lecture ...

Ms. Watson Coleman, 80, the first Black woman to represent New Jersey in Congress, said she would not run for a seventh term ...

Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, the first Black woman elected to represent New Jersey in the U.S. House, announced Monday she ...

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 ...

U.S. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, the first African American woman to represent New Jersey in Congress, announced Monday that ...

Groundbreaking New Jersey Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman said she will retire from Congress when her term ends. She was the first ...

Congressman James Clyburn has spent more than three decades in Congress. In his new book, he turns his attention to the ...

Bonnie Watson Coleman's departure adds to a growing list of Democrats in Congress who plan to retire after this term.

On Nov. 7, 1916, Jeannette Rankin of Montana won election to the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming the first woman elected to either chamber of Congress. Also on this date: In 1917, Russia’s ...