IN MEMORIAM: Bertie Bowman, Longest Serving Black Staffer in

By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor Herbert “Bertie” Bowman arrived in Washington, D.C. in 1944. He took a job sweeping the steps at the U.S. Capitol at 13 to become a well-known and very well-regarded staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Bowman died at 81 after heart surgery on October 25. “Bertie Bowman was

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