On Election Day, Representative Barbara Lee, a California Democrat, joined some two dozen Black women outside a polling place in Prince George’s County, Md., to celebrate the rise of Vice President Kamala Harris.
The ebullient group included Angela Alsobrooks, who later that day became one of two African American women elected to the U.S. Senate, which has never had more than one Black woman serving at a time.
Dawn Moore, the first lady of Maryland, was there too, as was the mayor of Bladensburg, Takisha James, and members of the Town Council, all of whom are Black women.
She had brought her grandson to witness history.
Instead they left with “tears in our eyes,” she said.
Persons:
Barbara Lee, Kamala Harris, Angela Alsobrooks, Dawn Moore, Takisha James, “, Lee, ”
Organizations:
California Democrat, U.S . Senate, Town Council, Howard University
Locations:
California, Prince George’s County, Md, Maryland, Bladensburg