Laphonza Butler Will Be Just the 3rd Black Woman Senator in U.S. History
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on January 26, 2024
Laphonza Butler’s appointment to the U.S. Senate to replace the late Dianne Feinstein of California will increase the number of Black senators serving at the same time to a record four.
But Black Americans are still woefully underrepresented in Congress.
The number of Black senators would need to at least triple to get to a position where Black Americans are proportionally represented in the chamber, Andra Gillespie, a political science professor at Emory University, told Capital B.
Butler will be the only Black woman senator in Congress and just the third . . .
