‘Vote, run, win and lead’: Counting Black women’s seats at the table
Source: The 19th News
The 2018 midterms were known as “The Year of the Black Woman,” as a record-setting five of them were elected to Congress.
It was also the year I met Glynda Carr. Seven years earlier, she and Kimberly Peeler-Allen started Higher Heights for America, proclaiming their mission as “a national movement to grow Black women’s political power from the voting booth to elected office.”
Click here to read the full article published by The 19TH News on 29 June 2023.
The 2018 midterms were known as “The Year of the Black Woman,” as a record-setting five of them were elected to Congress.
It was also the year I met Glynda Carr. Seven years earlier, she and Kimberly Peeler-Allen started Higher Heights for America, proclaiming their mission as “a national movement to grow Black women’s political power from the voting booth to elected office.”
Click here to read the full article published by The 19TH News on 29 June 2023.