"There’s a word, and the word is called misogynoir. And that word describes the double whammy that women of color have to face: You’re vulnerable on the issue of gender, and you’re vulnerable on the issue of race."
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Political leadersLawyers from the United StatesMembers of the United States SenateDiplomats of the United StatesUnited States presidential candidates, 2004
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The US’s first Black woman senator on what Ketanji Brown Jackson brings to the Supreme Court (April 7, 2022)
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Carol Moseley Braun
Carol Moseley Braun (born 16 August 1947) is a former U.S. Senator, an American diplomat, politician, and lawyer who represented Illinois in the United States Senate from 1993 to 1999. Prior to her Senate tenure, Moseley Braun was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives from 1979 to 1988 and served as Cook County Recorder of Deeds from 1988 to 1992.
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