“And in all those years, there have been more than 2,000 people who have served in the United States Senate. Only three have looked like me.” “And so I want to salute all those who came before me, who ...

Newly elected Raphael Warnock is only the 11th Black US senator since the Senate convened for the first time in 1789. ... Obama made history again as the first Black President of the United States.

Laphonza Butler, 44, will become the first openly gay Black person in the U.S. Senate, and the first Black female since Kamala Harris resigned to become vice president of the United States.

Hiram Revels subverted slave states and recruited soldiers in the Civil War. In the 150 years since he took office, he remains one of only 11 Black senators ever elected or appointed.

Neither Delaware nor Maryland have ever had a Black senator. ... “And in all those years, there have been more than 2,000 people who have served in the United States Senate.

So far, this cycle, EMILY’s List has endorsed two Black women for United States Senate, Rep. Val Demings of Florida and Cheri Beasley of North Carolina.

Barry Black celebrates 20 years in his role as the longest-consecutive-serving Senate chaplain in U.S. history. “I was retiring as a two-star admiral from the United States Navy Chaplain Corps ...