Cheryl Johnson, who was sworn in as Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives by Speaker Nancy Pelosi in 2021, begins a historic term as the House seeks a new leader. As the Pelosi era comes to a ...

For the first time ever, two Black women have been elected to serve in the U.S. Senate, while voters also sent a transgender lawmaker to the U.S. House of Representatives ...

Since 1789, Pennsylvania has sent 1,041 representatives to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. Up until now, not a single one of that 1,041 has been a Black woman.

Black women notch historic Senate wins in an election year defined by potential firsts Voters also sent the first openly transgender lawmaker to the U.S. House of Representatives.

Johnson, who has served as Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives since 2019 is presiding over the chamber and calling members to order daily until a Speaker of the House is chosen.

Black women notch historic Senate wins in an election year defined by potential firsts Voters also sent the first openly transgender lawmaker to the U.S. House of Representatives.

Demings, a Florida Congresswoman, is the only Black woman helping to present the U.S. House of Representatives’ case against the president. Harris is the lone Black woman in the 100-member Senate.

As of Oct. 21, an all-time high of at least 134 Black women were major-party candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives. Of that, 105 are Democrats and 29 are Republicans.

This is an opinion column. A chair was just a chair — until Miriam Elizabeth Benjamin put a light and a bell on one. Benjamin was a schoolteacher, composer and inventor, born in 1861 in Charleston, ...

Philadelphia Democratic Rep. Joanna McClinton was elected on Tuesday as speaker of Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives, becoming the first Black woman in state history to hold that post ...

What It Looks Like To Have A Record Number Of Women In The House Of Representatives The 116th Congress has 127 female members — 102 of them in the House. That's far more than the previous record ...

The first Black man to win a seat in the Mississippi Legislature in the 20th century was Robert Clark, no relation, a Democrat from Ebenezer who was elected to the House in 1967.