About Us

Advocating for access to quality affordable healthcare 

Advocating for equal pay for equal work. 

Advocating for access to quality affordable education

Advocating for access to entrepreneurial resources & job training

Advocating for restoration of the Voting Rights Act

Advocating for criminal justice reform

Dr. Alma S. Adams  serves on the following House Committees: Education and Labor, Financial Services and Agriculture.  The Congresswoman is Chair of the Higher Education and Labor subcommittee on Workforce Protections and is Vice- chair of the Agriculture Committee.

Congressmember Bass serves on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs where she is the Chair of the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations. 

Congresswoman Joyce Beatty sits on the exclusive House Committee on Financial Services and serves on three Subcommittees: Diversity and Inclusion (Chair), Housing, Community Development and Insurance, and Oversight and Investigations. 

Cheri Beasley has devoted her life to public service and to the people of North Carolina. In 2019, Cheri made history by becoming the first African American woman to serve as Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.

Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke is Vice Chair of the powerful Energy and Commerce Committee and a member of the Homeland Security Committee. 

 Congresswoman Val Demings  serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; House Committee on the Judiciary; and House Committee on Homeland Security.

 Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge serves on the following committees: House Administration, Agriculture and Education and Labor.  She is the Chair of the House Administration Subcommittee on Elections and Chair of the Agriculture Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight and Department Operations.  

In 2017, Kamala D. Harris was sworn in as the second African-American woman and first South Asian-American senator in history. She serves on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, the Select Committee on Intelligence, the Committee on the Judiciary, and the Committee on the Budget.

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee is a senior member of the House Committees on the Judiciary and Homeland Security and the Budget Committee.  She is the first female Chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee for Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.

Congresswoman Johnson is the first African-American and woman to chair the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.

Congresswoman Robin Kelly was elected to serve the 2nd Congressional District of Illinois in 2013  

Congresswoman Brenda L. Lawrence serves on the House Appropriations Committee and on the House Oversight and Reform Committee.

Congresswoman Barbara Lee serves on the Budget Committee and Appropriations Committee. She serves on three subcommittees (Vice Chair, State and Foreign Operations; Labor, Health and Human Services, Education; and Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration) of the Appropriations Committee.

Congresswoman Lucy McBath serves on the Committee on Judiciary and the Committee on Education and Labor.

Congresswoman Stacey E. Plaskett serves on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, as well as the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. She is also a member of the House Committee on Agriculture, where she serves as the Chair of the Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture and Research. 

Congresswoman Terri A. Sewell serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and as Vice-Chair of the House Ways & Means Committee.

Congresswoman Lauren Underwood is the first woman, the first person of color, and the first millennial to represent her community in Congress. She is also the youngest African American woman to serve in the United States House of Representatives.  Congresswoman Underwood serves on the Education and Labor, Veteran’s Affairs and Homeland Security committees. 

Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman serves on the House Committees on Appropriations and Homeland Security.

Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson serves on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and House Committee on Education and Labor, serving as Chair of the Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions Subcommittee.

In 2020 as we mark the 100th year that women have been allowed to vote in the USA, remember the Black women were on the front-lines of the suffrage movement. 

Elected to 12 consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, Late Rep. Cardiss Collins ranks as one of the longest–serving minority women in the history of Congress.

In 1972, Shirley Chisholm became the first of a handful of black women to run for a major political party's presidential ticket. She later said, “…our society is not yet either just or free,” a true statement to this day. Be the change, vote in local, state & federal elections! 

In 1962, Hon. Edith Sampson became the first black woman to be elected as a judge in the state of Illinois.   

Congresswoman  Corinne “Lindy” Boggs served 18 years in the House, becoming an advocate for women’s equality, economic opportunity for minorities, and the preservation of House heritage.

In 1973, when  Yvonne Brathwaite Burke became the first Congresswoman to give birth and be granted maternity leave while serving in Congress 

 Late Rep. Barbara Jordan was one of the first African Americans elected from the Deep South since 1898 and the first black Congresswoman ever from that region. 

 Late Rep. Julia Carson (D) was the first African American and woman to represent the Indiana state capital. 

 In 1970, Late St. Rep. Gwendolyn “Gwen” Sawyer Cherry became the first African-American woman to serve as a state legislator in Florida. 

The first African–American woman to represent North Carolina in Congress, Fmr. Rep. Eva Clayton became the state’s first black Representative since 1901.

A 30–year veteran of Michigan politics, Fmr. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick won election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1996.

In 2008, Fmr. Rep. Donna F. Edwards won a special election to become the first African-American woman elected to Congress from Maryland.

 Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D) held a recent press conference calling for Congress to repeal the 2001  Authorization for Use of Military Force 

 Congresswoman Alma Adams (NC-12), and Congresswoman Lauren Underwood (IL-14), founders and co-chairs of the Black Maternal Health Caucus, introduced the Community Access to Resources and Education (CARE) for Families Act

 June is #Alzheimers Brain Awareness Month and in 2018, Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) co-sponsored BOLD Infrastructure for Alzheimer's Act, legislation to create national public health infrastructure to promote early detection, increase intervention, and prevent avoidable hospitalizations 

Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-IL) illuminated how Trump's inhumane immigration policies have led to "separation of families and deaths". 

Fmr. Rep.  Barbara–Rose Collins was elected to Congress in 1990 from Michigan's 15th District.

In announcing her run for President of the United States in January, 2019, Sen. Kamala Harris became the first woman of Caribbean and South Asian descent to run for #POTUS

The first African–American woman Senator, Carol Moseley–Braun was also only the second black Senator since the Reconstruction Era.

When Fmr. Rep. Diane Watson entered the U.S. House of Representatives she was a former educator, state legislator, and U.S ambassador.

Fmr. Rep. Carrie P. Meek won election to the House in 1992 as one of the first African–American lawmakers to represent Florida in Congress since Reconstruction

In 2007, Juanita Millender–McDonald made history by becoming the first African–American woman to chair a standing congressional panel, the House Administration Committee.

Congresswoman Robin Kelly was elected to serve the 2nd Congressional District of Illinois in 2013 

Learn more about diverse women who have served.