New members are coming to Washington from ... At 35-years-old, Democrat Summer Lee is the first Black woman elected to Congress from Pennsylvania. “I’m definitely nervous.

Harlem’s longtime former congressman Charlie Rangel has died at age 94. A founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus and the first Black chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, ...

Janelle Bynum became Oregon’s first Black member of Congress after successfully flipping a U.S. House seat from Republicans this month. The Democrat took the seat after defeating Republican Lori ...

A viral meme, posted on Instagram, features a well-known lithograph of the first Black members of Congress, with a bold statement. “History not taught,” it says. “The first 23 Black ...

And in the House, two states and one U.S. territory elected their first Black, Hispanic or Pacific Islander woman lawmaker. Overall, there are 61 women of color in the 119th Congress. Together they ...

The first three Black members of the U.S. House from Alabama ... who refused to make patronage appointments while serving in Congress and ended up losing re-election after one term in office.

Mondaire Jones, one of the first Black and gay members of Congress, is only 36 years old, but he still looks back at his youth as a different era. “It was tough. It was a different world then ...

Hayden was both the first Black American and the first woman ... Several Democratic members of Congress criticized her firing. "While President Trump wants to ban books and tell Americans what ...

President Donald Trump’s abrupt firing of Carla Hayden, the first female and the first Black librarian ... called on members of both parties in Congress to call out the firing.

Former Rep. Mia Love of Utah, the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress, died Sunday at age 49. “She was in her home surrounded by family,” family members announced in a social ...