Three-term state Sen. Cleo Fields became the Louisiana delegation’s second Black Democratic congressman Tuesday night, ...

As part of creating an opportunity for two Black members of Congress, legislators added White voters to districts of House ...

McBride became the first openly transgender state senator in American history when she was elected in 2020. “Whenever you are ...

Their victories raise the number of Black members of the Senate to five ... party convention during the 2016 Democratic ...

Delaware made history on election night as voters elected the state's first Black U.S. senator and the first openly trans ...

Democrat Janelle Bynum is projected to win Oregon’s 5th Congressional District, according to Decision Desk HQ, making her the first Black lawmaker to represent Oregon in Congress.

Louisiana has elected its second Black member of Congress for the first time in history and flipped the 6th Congressional ...

Several candidates are poised to become the first of their demographic to represent their states in the House or Senate.

Bynum currently holds an 8,575 vote edge over Chavez-DeRemer across the district, which covers all or portions of six ...

Their victories raise the number of Black members of the Senate to five ... party convention during the 2016 Democratic ...

Their victories raise the number of Black members of the Senate to five ... Her elevation to Congress comes at a time when transgender issues have proven divisive in American politics.

Sens.-elect Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) and Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) will become the first two Black women to serve ...