Fighting for Equal Representation
Stefanie Brown James is a co-founder and senior adviser of The Collective PAC, which works to elect Black candidates at all levels of government. Keep Reading »
Vice President Kamala Harris said on Thursday that a lawsuit seeking to overturn federal approval of a widely used abortion pill amounted to an attack on “our public health system as a whole.” During her first trip to Iowa as vice president, Ms. Harris portrayed Republican attempts to impose a nationwide ban on abortion as immoral and extreme. Keep Reading »
A Black woman has never been a governor, and only two have been senators. Despite progress at lower levels of government, and one boundary-breaking vice president, familiar barriers are slow to fall. Keep Reading »
“It blows my mind we're still having firsts. But, it’s a tremendous honor and responsibility,” Jennifer McClellan of Virginia’s 4th Congressional District told theGrio. Keep Reading »
Black women are helping fuel diversity in Congress and broke barriers in local races but fell short in major statewide contests in the midterm elections. Keep Reading »