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Listen • 4:54 Marquita Bradshaw was the only Black woman to win a U.S. Senate primary this cycle. She lost the general election for a Tennessee Senate seat. On the day that California Gov. Gavin Newsom named Kamala Harris replacement in the U.S. Senate, Molly Watson jumped on a call with other organizers and the two Black women in Congress whom they had urged Newsom to appoint to the seat instead. It was an emotional conversation, in which Watson said she struggled to hold back tears. It cut pretty deep knowing that we were going to be fully erased from the Senate, said Watson, of the progressive group Courage California. ....
Kamala Harris was only the second Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate in American history, and, until she is inaugurated into her new job as Vice President next month, she is the sole Black woman currently sitting in that chamber. When her ascension opened a space for Gavin Newsom to fill, some called on him to select another Black woman who would maintain that toe-hold of representation, launching a social media campaign to #KeepTheSeat. Today, it was revealed that Newsom had instead selected current California Secretary of State Alex Padilla. “We continue to say that we win with Black women and that Black women have been the backbone of our democracy, but still too often when it comes to putting a Black woman in a seat of power, we are an afterthought,” says Stefanie Brown James, cofounder and executive director of the Collective PAC, an organization that supports Black political candidates, wrote in a statement. “What does it say about our democracy to leave the mo ....