... A record number of black women have served in state legislatures this year!
According to a new report titled "Black Women in American Politics 2025," from Higher Heights and the Center for American Women and Politics, there’s been a 67% increase in the number of black women in state legislatures since 2014.
Here are some key findings from the new report:
- Since 2014, the number of black women state legislators has risen from 240 to 401 — a 67.1% increase in just over a decade.
- 2025 marks the first time that two black women are serving simultaneously in the U.S. Senate.
- If Virginia's Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears (R) wins the state’s 2025 gubernatorial election, she would be the first black woman governor in the U.S. and the first woman governor of Virginia.
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And since we know you're busy, here are our top picks for other "must reads" this month!
- For the woman who knows "history" includes "her story," learn more about the bipartisan effort "for funding for a new women’s history museum on the National Mall that would join museums celebrating African American and Native American history."
- For the woman who realizes "pandemic gains" shouldn't be temporary but permanent, the Washington Post wrote about how and why "return-to-office measures and government layoffs take an outsize toll on women," causing women to leave the workforce and erasing pandemic gains.
- For the woman who wants to Remember the Ladies, check out our monthly feature on key moments in women's representation and rights in the past during the month of August.
Click here to read the August 2025 newsletter
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