Barbara Rodriguez cites our Black Representation in a Turbulent Era report and interviews Campaign Director Brenda Choresi Carter about the surge of city-level election victories by Black women.
From the article:
‘I think in political circles and for powerbrokers — the world of political gatekeepers who decide who’s going to run and who’s going to get the resources for their campaigns — there still is a lot of old, inaccurate conventional wisdom about what a successful or a viable candidate looks like, and that candidate usually does not look like a Black woman,’ Carter said. ‘ …The good news is that the more women, people of color and in this case, Black women, who are elected, and the more they run and win, the more that becomes a discredited notion.’
