Black Women Break a US Senate Barrier, Winning Two Seats
- Only 12 Black people have served in US senate, 3 of them women
- Alsobrooks and Rochester won races in Maryland and Delaware
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Two Black women, Angela Alsobrooks and Lisa Blunt Rochester, have won US Senate seats representing Maryland and Delaware, breaking another barrier in a 235-year-old institution long dominated by White men.
Only 12 Black people have served in the Senate, and only three of them have been women. Never before have two Black women been seated at the same time.