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Meet The Squad Who Paved The Way For Black Women In Politics
As influential powerhouses, these five Black women can help launch politicians to the top
“I was introduced to each one of the ‘Colored Girls’ by Minyon Moore. As a matter of fact I cannot remember when Minyon was not in my life… Black women have always been at the bottom of the ladder. However, they held tight to that rung and climbed it slowly, with bruised and bleeding hands until they reached the top rung. And that is what the ‘Colored Girls’ did, each one of them, individually and collectively, teaching all of us how important it is to hold on until we reach the top.” —Cicely Tyson on The Colored Girls
Nowadays, when you reference “the squad,” you might think of the four historic women lawmakers of color who made history helping to create the most diverse Congress in U.S. history in 2018. But decades before Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) disrupted the halls of Congress, a squad dubbed the…
