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Maryland Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Angela Alsobrooks (second from right) takes a photo with supporters outside a voting location for the state primary election at the Marilyn Praisner Community Recreation Center on May 14, 2024, in Burtonsville, Md. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images)

BY CYNTHIA RICHIE TERRELL | We currently have zero Black women governors and only one Black woman in the Senate. But that could soon change.

This week, exciting news came out of Maryland’s Democratic primary race: U.S. Senate candidate Angela Alsobrooks won big despite being outspent 10 to 1 by her opponent, Rep. David Trone, a wealthy businessman who threw more than $60 million of his own money into his campaign. Alsobrooks is the county executive for Maryland’s second-largest county, and this win means she, along with Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, could become the United States’ fourth and fifth Black women to ever serve in the U.S. Senate.

Alsobrooks’ primary win underscores her electability, despite the attacks she endured suggesting otherwise. Angela Alsbrooks represents a new generation of leaders urgently needed in a body that lacks a single elected Black woman. Don’t buy the line that she won’t trounce Larry Hogan in November. 

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Claudine Gay attends a menorah lighting ceremony on the seventh night of Hanukkah on Dec. 13, 2023, in Cambridge, Mass. (Andrew Lichtenstein / Corbis via Getty Images)

BY JANELL HOBSON | Black women are often in the crosshairs of abusive discourse driven by social media. That recent targets are often public figures suggests that social media abusers find it profitable to attack high-profile Black women who have become symbolic avatars for the group as a whole.

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BY CYNTHIA RICHIE TERRELL | Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation. 

This week: why expanding women’s power isn’t a single-issue effort but is a prerequisite to progress across the board; the number of women running for the U.S. House is down, with Republican women seeing the greatest decline; Prince George’s county executive Angela Alsobrooks won an impressive victory in the U.S. Senate primary; Suzanne LaFrance on track to be Anchorage’s first woman mayor; in North Macedonia, where Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova became the first woman president; and more.

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