Black representation in Congress has more than doubled since the late Rep. John Lewis was first elected in 1986 after years of fighting for equality.
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The hopefuls include up-and-coming leaders who may share Lewis' commitment to justice and equality but will be making their own mark. Williams used the word “fight” or “fighter” more than once a minute as she made her candidacy pitch to the party committee thatWilliams addressed her fellow Democrats as her “co-conspirators for justice.”
Riding around in the back of her grandfather’s pickup truck before elections, Williams distributed slate cards urging neighbors to vote for specific candidates. Her textbooks told the story of the integration of the University of Alabama by her great aunt, Autherine Lucy, in 1956. In addition to her role at the state level, Williams also worked her way up to the executive committee of the national party. She was a fundraiser for Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign and a convention delegate for both Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Noting that she’s also been willing to work with Republicans, the paper quoted a congratulatory note to Williams from the top aide of Georgia’s lieutenant governor. Mondaire Jones and Ritchie Torres are succeeding longtime, retiring incumbents, and the third, Jamaal Bowman, a former middle-school principal from the Bronx, unseated Rep. Eliot Engel, the powerful chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.And once they get to Washington, they all say they aim to make"good trouble.
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