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Democrat Stacey Abrams says she plans to run for elected office again, after conceding Friday in the Georgia gubernatorial race. In an interview Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Abrams was asked whether she would run for Senate in 2020, after electrifying Democrats who hoped she would be elected as the nation’s first black…

Three years ago, HBO aired a documentary called “3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets,” which examined the tortured aftermath of the death of Jordan Davis, a seventeen-year-old boy who was shot as he sat in an S.U.V. parked at a Florida gas station. At the start of the film, you see Lucy McBath, Davis’s mother, sitting…

On the heels of an election in which a record number of women were elected to the House of Representatives, “This Week” co-anchor Martha Raddatz sat down with five representatives-elect who were part of the blue wave. Read more at ABCNews.com

Lauren Underwood, 32, is taking her #BlackGirlMagic to Congress after her history-making victory over her four-term GOP opponent, Rep. Randy Hultgren, in last week’s midterm elections. Read more at TheGrio.com

A record number of people registered to vote in the midterm elections on National Voter Registration Day last week, surpassing the previous record set during the 2016 presidential campaign. More than 800,000 people registered to vote this year as part of National Voter Registration Day, which fell on Sept. 25. The corresponding campaign had aimed…

Each Friday night, starting in the early-aughts, four African-American women — they called themselves “The Colored Girls” — gathered for dinner with others in Washington, D.C. What began as a respite from the political scene soon grew into a must-attend event for presidential hopefuls. Almost always White men, candidates such as Howard Dean and Tom…

These days, my great-grandmother, Ida B. Wells, is referred to as a “badass” and a “boss.” She was an educator, a journalist, a feminist, a businesswoman, a newspaper owner, a public speaker, a suffragist, a civil rights activist, and a women’s club leader. She was a founder of the NAACP, a founder of the National…

Mobilized by the nation’s divisions on race and Donald Trump’s presidency, black women are using networks forged in segregation to turn out voters this fall. Read more at NYTimes.com

After a confirmation process where women all but slit their wrists, letting their stories of sexual trauma run like rivers of blood through the Capitol, the Senate still voted to confirm Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. With the exception of Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, all the women in the Republican conference…