Annie Karni
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There was Carol Moseley Braun, the Illinois Democrat who in 1992 became the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate. Nearly a quarter-century would pass before Kamala Harris became the second, in 2016. Seven more years would go by before the third Black woman was sworn in, after Laphonza Butler was appointed.
None of them overlapped in the Senate, each serving as the sole Black woman in the overwhelmingly white and male 100-member chamber sometimes referred to as the world’s greatest deliberative body.
All that may be about to change in what...
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