JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - History is made at the Mississippi State Capitol, where the portrait of the state’s first African American female representative now hangs. Former Representative Alyce ...

Bonnie Watson Coleman, is the first Black woman to represent New Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the first ...

"I am the granddaughter of sharecroppers and I am the first African American democratic nominee running for Congress in a community where my grandfather came to for a job opportunity with no ...

Before being elected to Congress, Crockett spent her legal career serving as a criminal defense attorney and public defender.