Higher Heights and the Center for American Women and Politics Release Black Women in American Politics 2023
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Thursday, June 29, 2023
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WASHINGTON, June 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- This week, Higher Heights Leadership Fund and the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University, released the latest version of the report, Black Women in American Politics 2023.
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- WASHINGTON, June 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- This week, Higher Heights Leadership Fund and the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University , released the latest version of the report, Black Women in American Politics 2023.
- For nearly a decade, Higher Heights and the Center for American Women and Politics have teamed up to report on the status of Black women in American politics.
- Higher Heights and CAWP issued their first report on the status of Black women in American politics in June 2014.
- Since then, 24 new Black women were elected to Congress, the number of Black women state legislators has risen by over 50%, Black women have made tremendous strides in representation as big-city mayors – with 15 Black women taking office as mayors in the top 100 most populous cities since mid-2014 – and a Black woman now serves as vice president.