Daily News | Summer Lee will be Pa.’s first Black female member of Congress
Democrat Summer Lee, a state representative from western Pennsylvania, has become the state’s first Black woman to be elected to Congress.
“It looks like we won an election,” Lee said during a press conference Tuesday night. “This was a movement about what it looks like when we prioritize the most marginalized. This is what a real working class movement looks like ... It is a new day in Pittsburgh.” Pennsylvania’s 17-member delegation has just one other Black representative in Congress — Democrat Dwight Evans, who represents Philadelphia. The state has never had a female or Black senator or governor.
Sen. Bernie Sanders and U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. Her win represents a big victory for progressives and, according to, she could be the latest member of Capitol Hill’s progressive “Squad,” a group of women lawmakers that includes Ocasio-Cortez, U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar , Ayanna Pressley , and others.
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