New Report: Black Women Underrepresented In Elected Office Despite Civic Engagement

By Donna M. Owens ·Updated October 26, 2021

With the 2022 midterm elections just one year away, political experts are taking stock of Black women’s electoral power nationwide. To this end, Higher Heights Leadership Fund and the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) at Rutgers University released a new report on Friday: Reaching Higher: Black Women in American Politics 2021.

“In 2020, we saw another year of historic developments, coming after a record number of Black women running

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