African American Women In Politics

08/27/2022

06/30/2018

https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2018/06/26/baltimore-states-attorney/

Marilyn Mosby won the Democratic nomination for a second term as Baltimore's top prosecutor on Tuesday.

05/14/2018

http://washingtoninformer.com/government-cuts-to-snap-wic-affect-black-women-report/

04/26/2018

http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-kamala-harris-says-she-won-t-take-1524581728-htmlstory.html

California Sen. Kamala Harris says she will no longer accept money from corporate PACs.

11/27/2017

https://www.essence.com/news/cyntoia-brown-child-sex-slave-documentary?utm_campaign=essence&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&xid=essence_socialflow_facebook

10/30/2017

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/from-metoo-to-who-me-where-are-white-women-allies_us_59f1fbb6e4b06acda25f480e?ncid=engmodushpmg00000003

Black women are tired of having to come to everyone else’s defense and then looking around and finding themselves alone when they’re under attack.

10/26/2017

https://blog.blackbutterflybeautiful.com/26-years-ago-america-started-talking-sexual-harassment-thanks-anita-hill/

10/17/2017

http://www.ebony.com/news-views/black-woman-me-too-movement-tarana-burke-alyssa-milano

You couldn’t scroll through any of your social media accounts on Monday without seeing the words “Me Too.” Last week’s reports of Harvey Weinstein’s sexual predation...

10/13/2017

http://atlantablackstar.com/2017/10/13/black-judges-matter-quest-equal-justice/?utm_content=bufferd0914&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

On October 2, 1967, Thurgood Marshall took his seat on the Supreme Court of the United States. Marshall was the first African-American to sit on the Court.

10/03/2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW7F6Jidrpc&feature=share

The message of Saturday's March for Black Women was loud and clear: Black women matter. Many marchers felt that January's Women's March didn't address the st...

10/03/2017

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-black-women-sexual-assault-20170828-story.html

For black women, stereotypes and racial history can make it even harder to heal after a sexual assault.

09/23/2017

http://www.theroot.com/more-black-women-are-realizing-that-the-democratic-part-1818650231?rev=1506100384694

The Democratic Party has experienced an 11 percent drop in support from black women, while “the percentage of black women who said neither party represents them jumped from 13 percent in 2016 to 21 percent in 2017,” according to the 2017 Power of the Sister Vote poll, conducted by the Black Women’s…