When she got the courage to pick up the phone, it was her senior adviser Roosevelt Holmes on the other end. Being a Black woman has worked in Keith’s favor as the country grapples with policies often rooted in racism and examines who is being allowed to create them. … They are inherently co-owned, and that’s what it looks like when you see a Black woman veteran.”ADWhite people are 81 percent of the district’s population, and Black and Asian people are about 12 percent and 2 percent, respectively. But 2020 could be the year of amplifying Black voices, particularly Black women’s voices, for office as one of her more notable endorsers, Cori Bush, knows all too well. She ran against well-backed Clay in 2018 in Missouri’s 1st district and lost by slightly more than 28,500 votes.

Source: Washington Post August 28, 2020 13:33 UTC