Carol Moseley Braun, one of only two Black women to have been elected to the Senate in U.S. history, was in Paris on Wednesday when she was informed that another Black woman, Angela Alsobrooks, had won the Democratic nomination for an open Senate seat in Maryland.
“That’s wonderful.”With Ms. Alsobrooks’s come-from-behind victory in Tuesday’s primary, voters in November will most likely have the chance to double the number of Black women ever elected to the Senate.
Another Democrat, Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester, is the odds-on favorite to win her party’s nomination in September for an open Senate seat in heavily Democratic Delaware.
If both win in November, for the first time, two Black women will serve in Congress’s upper chamber at the same time.
Representative Barbara Lee, a seasoned political veteran and an antiwar icon, received barely a glance from the party apparatus this year when she ran for an open Senate seat in California.
Persons:
Carol Moseley Braun, Angela Alsobrooks, ”, “, Alsobrooks’s, Lisa Blunt Rochester, “ It’s, Moseley Braun, Kamala Harris, Laphonza Butler, Barbara Lee
Organizations:
Senate, Democratic, “, Democrat, United States African Development Foundation, Democratic Party
Locations:
Paris, Maryland, Tuesday’s, Democratic Delaware, Illinois, California