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History of Black Women Serving in Congress
1968: Shirley Chisholm (NY). Won in newly-created district. Retired in 1982.
1972: Yvonne Brathwaite Burke (CA). Won in newly-created district. Gave up seat in 1978 in an unsuccessful bid for state attorney general.
Barbara Jordan (TX). Won in newly-created district. Retired in 1978.
1973: Cardiss Collins (IL). Won special election to succeed her late husband, Rep. George Collins (D). Retired in 1996.
1982: Katie Hall (IN). Won special election following the death of Rep. Adam Benjamin (D). Lost bid for renomination in the 1984 Democratic primary to Peter Visclosky, who won the seat and still serves.
1990: Barbara-Rose Collins (MI). Won open seat being vacated by Rep. George Crockett. Lost bid for renomination in the 1996 Democratic primary to Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, also an African American, who won the seat.
Maxine Waters (CA). Won open seat vacated by Rep. Gus Hawkins (D). Still serves.
1992: Corrine Brown (FL). Won in newly-created district. Still serves.
Eva Clayton (NC). Won special election following the death of Rep. Walter Jones (D) in redrawn district. Retired in 2002.
Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX). Won in newly-created district. Still serves.
Cynthia McKinney (GA). Won in newly created district. Lost bid for renomination in the 2002 Democratic primary to Denise Majette, another African American, who won the seat. When Majette ran for the Senate in 2004, McKinney won back her old seat. Lost bid for renomination in the 2006 Democratic primary to Hank Johnson, another African American, who won the seat and who still serves.
Carrie Meek (FL). Won in newly created district. Retired in 2002.
1994: Sheila Jackson Lee (TX). Unseated Rep. Craig Washington (D), another African American, in Democratic primary. Still serves.
1996: Juanita Millender-McDonald (CA). Won special election in March 1996 following resignation of Rep. Walter Tucker (D). Died in office April 2007.
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (MI). Unseated Rep. Barbara-Rose Collins (D), another African American, in Democratic primary. Lost bid for renomination in the 2010 Democratic primary to Hansen Clarke, also an African American, who won the seat.
Julia Carson (IN). Won open seat vacated by Rep. Andy Jacobs (D). Died in office December 2007.
1998: Barbara Lee (CA). Won special election in April 1998 following resignation of Rep. Ron Dellums (D). Still serves.
Stephanie Tubbs Jones (OH). Won open seat vacated by Rep. Louis Stokes (D). Died in office August 2008.
2001: Diane Watson (CA). Won special election following death of Rep. Julian Dixon (D). Retired in 2010.
2002: Denise Majette (GA). Unseated Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D), another African American, in Democratic primary. Vacated seat in 2004 to run for the Senate.
2004: Gwen Moore (D-WI). Won open seat vacated by Rep. Gerald Kleczka (D). Still serves.
2006: Yvette Clarke (NY). Won open seat vacated by Rep. Major Owens (D). Still serves.
2007: Laura Richardson (CA). Won special election following death of Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald. Lost bid for re-election in 2012 to fellow Rep. Janice Hahn (D).
2008: Donna Edwards (MD). Unseated Rep. Albert Wynn, another African American, in Democratic primary. Still serves.
Marcia Fudge (OH). Won special election following death of Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D). Still serves.
2010: Terri Sewell (AL). Won open seat vacated by Rep. Artur Davis (D), who ran for governor. Still serves.
Karen Bass (CA). Won open seat vacated by Rep. Diane Watson (D). Still serves.
Frederica Wilson (FL). Won open seat vacated by Rep. Kendrick Meek (D), who ran for Senate. Still serves.
2012: Joyce Beatty (OH). Won in newly-created district. Still serves.
WHAT THE FUCK
in case anyone was wondering what rape culture looks like.
(Source: bonitabreezy)
As a young girl from New Orleans,Betty Jacobs (Schwartzberg) attended Lelia Haller School of Dance on Canal Street. When the United States entered World War II, she was in the eighth grade at Isidore Newman School. Haller’s dance troupe soon began performing all around Louisiana and Mississippi for servicemen. Betty recalled:
At least three or four times a week we would meet the big Army pickup truck and they would take us to different bases: Camp Beauregard, the Naval Air Station, every camp, Camp Leroy Johnson, the hospital. I vividly remember going to the Marine Hospital — just sad. It was very traumatic for a thirteen-year-old to see such maimed young men…. We just went and we visited with them. And we would take them treats; my mother would make cookies or something, even some smelling aftershave lotion or something like that that the hospital director would tell us would be a little treat for them.
At Camp Plauché, Betty’s troupe performed a show called “Yankee Doodle Dandy” with some of the servicemen included in the cast. The entire Jacobs family helped in the patriotic cause — visiting hospitals, teaching classes at serviceman’s centers, dancing at camps, bringing servicemen home for dinner. Volunteering as a teenager had a deep effect on Betty. She later said about World War II, “I also realized that I lived in a wonderful, wonderful country and it made me just so proud to be an American and to be in this country.”
See more of Betty’s performance costumes, now in the collection of The National WWII Museum.
Police Forcefully Evict Native Brazilian Squatters After Long Resistance
Police evicted two dozen Amazon natives on Friday from an old native museum that will be demolished to clear areas adjacent to Brazil’s legendary Maracana soccer stadium, the main venue for next year’s World Cup.
The natives from different Amazon tribes had been living on the grounds of the Rio de Janeiro museum since 2006 and were resisting its demolition, which caused further delays to the overhaul of the stadium complex.
Riot police handcuffed the natives, some of whom wore feathered headdresses and body paint, and used tear gas to disperse street demonstrations by sympathizers trying to block the eviction.
The museum area was originally planned to become a parking lot for the stadium, but after the protests Rio authorities decided to build a sports museum on the site. The Indians were taken to alternative housing provided by the city.
police.
this makes me feel sick.
(76# Ghana) King Peggielene Bartels: Why she kicks ass
“To be a king in an African village or some places like this, it’s not like European queens where everything is on a silver platter for them … I have to really work hard to help my people. I have to give myself to people to better their lives..”
- She is currently the King of Otuam, Ghana and one of only three female kings in Ghana. She has maintained her work in Ghana’s embassy in Washington, D.C. while making education affordable in Otuam, installing borehead wells to produce clean drinking water, enforcing incarceration laws to deal with domestic violence, providing the village with its first ambulance, replenishing the royal coffers by taxing Otuam’s fishing industry to improve life in the village, and appointing three women to her council.
- When she encountered corruption and the threat of embezzlement to the royal funds, she declared “I’m going to squeeze their balls so hard their eyes pop!”
- For 11 months out of the year she’s regular Peggy, secretary for the Ghanian Ambassador. She works, keeps in touch with her advisors via phone every night, saves her money and accumulates her vacation time into one month-long period- where she then takes off to Ghana to fulfill her duties in-person.
- When she discovered that male chauvinists wanted her to only be a figurehead, she said: “They were treating me like I am a second-class citizen because I am a woman. I said, ‘Hell no, you’re not going to do this to a woman!’”
- King Penny’s tale has been documented in a book written by her and author Eleanor Herman and is to be made into a film after Hollywood star Will Smith bought the rights to the book.
god damn it will smith, you best make that movie with a quickness and make it well
Puppy’s murder made me aware that we were not safe or untouchable and that if someone does touch us, no one gives a shit. We only have each other. We always knew this, but now we needed to take a step towards doing something about it. So I started looking out for myself and the girls who worked on the street with me. We girls decided that whenever we got into a car with someone, another girl would write down as much information as possible. We would try not to just lean into the car window but get a guy to walk outside the car so that everyone could see him, so we all knew who he was if she didn’t come back. That’s how it started. Since no one was going to do it for us, we had to do it for ourselves.
Just because there’s this umbrella, LGBT, we’re all grouped together. But guess what? Someone poked a hole in the umbrella and the girls are still getting wet.
And so there is a significant philosophical difference between existing LGBT movement priorities and what transgender community activists like Miss Major prioritize. Mainstream movement priorities focus on removing the queer stigma from otherwise secure middle-class lives, which is why overt policy-based discrimination like marriage and hate crimes is the focus. Yet, the approach of Miss Major and other community activists like her is to say: How is discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation embedded in life’s hardships? How is it related to racism, classism, and sexism? Fighting for domestic partner benefits is important, but it means little to someone who can’t find a job. This argument not only means taking into account a broader range of issues that affect people’s lives than just sexuality or partnership status, but stands to infinitely strengthen the movement by prioritizing points of commonality with other struggles for justice and human rights.
