Sentences with phrase «black woman senator»

There are currently 18 black women in Congress, including 19 black women representatives and one black woman senator, the report found.

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Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins will hosted the rally in partnership with other elected officials and community groups throughout Westchester County including the Immigration Justice Clinic at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, the Lower Hudson Valley Chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union, Cabrini Immigrant Services, Community Voices Heard, the Yonkers Islamic Center, the Muslim American Society of Upper New York, St. Catherine AME Zion Church, Calvary Baptist Church, the Minister's Fellowship Council of White Plains and Vicinity, the Westchester Black Women's Political Caucus, and Temple Beth Shalom in Hastings - on - Hudson.

«When we all come together, black and white, Native and Latino, gay and straight, men and women, Zephyr will fight all efforts to try to break us up and divide us as Donald Trump and his supporters are trying to do,» said the senator.

«I laugh at all those who turned up their nose at me,» said Shirley L. Huntley, a former state senator from Queens who spent 10 months in federal prison in Danbury, Conn. — the institution on which the women's prison in «Orange Is the New Black» is based — after pleading guilty in 2013 to stealing more than $ 87,000 in taxpayer money through a nonprofit she ran.

Last month, «Mariposa & the Saint» was performed for members of the state Legislature, hosted by the Women of Color Sub-Committee of the Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic, & Asian Legislative caucus including Assemblymembers Maritza Davila and Latoya Joyner, along with Assemblymember Jeffrion L. Aubry, and state Senator Bill Perkins.

A good night for a cashmere sportcoat or small black pearls at an intimate restaurant down in the District; maybe white Notre Dame - style tapers and a rich controversial senator eating trout with a pretty woman not his wife.