Runs by Cheri Beasley, Val Demings and Stacey Abrams both underscored long-standing challenges to Black women who run — and showed their potential.
The president’s party typically loses seats in the midterms, and Demings and Beasley each lost in Republican-leaning battleground states, Decision Desk HQ projects.
As a Democrat running in a Republican-leaning state, Beasley was tasked with not only energizing the urban Democratic base, but also connecting with rural, independent and conservative voters.
Demings faced an uphill battle in challenging a Republican incumbent in a key battleground state.
At oral arguments Monday, Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson represented the court’s liberal side.
In oral arguments Monday, a student organization is challenging the admissions diversity policies at both private and public schools for the first time.
The Senate candidate needs to turn out voters in both rural and urban parts of the state. Being a Democrat and a Black woman requires a certain balancing act, experts told The 19th.
A national conference decades ago on hunger, nutrition and health led to the WIC program and expanded school meals. The Biden administration hopes to make similar leaps in policy five decades later.
Families in communities hit hardest by incarceration face economic and emotional challenges that span beyond the prison system.
Women may be reentering the work force, but the numbers are uneven, with more Black women leaving.