"For the ancestors who sat at lunch counters and made sure that we all had the right to vote: We are not. Going. Back."
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Angela Alsobrooks
Angela Deneece Alsobrooks (born February 23, 1971) is an American lawyer and politician serving since 2025 as the junior United States senator from Maryland. A member of the Democratic Party, she served from 2011 to 2018 as state's attorney for Prince George's County and from 2018 to 2024 as county executive of Prince George's County. She was Prince George's County's first female county executive and the first Black female county executive in Maryland history.
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