This Maryland Senate Race Could Make History

 

BALTIMORE - Rep. Donna Edwards couldn't hide the fact that she is a black woman running for office even if she wanted to. Standing before a group of mostly black women at a senior center enjoying lunch recently, it's clear she doesn't.

Edwards, 57, a former anti-domestic violence activist elected to the House from a majority black Prince George's County district in 2008, rattled off the stark numbers.

"There are only 20 women in the Senate. There are no black women," she said. "What I would add to the U.S. Senate is a different kind of life experience and that would inform how I feel about public policy."

Line up the portraits of all the senators ever elected, nearly two thousand of them, and you would see a sea of white male faces. Towards the end of the procession, you would see 46 women, but only one black woman, Democrat Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois, and she finished her only term almost two decades ago. 

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Source: NBC News