Sentence examples for black representatives from inspiring English sources

The new House has 39 black representatives, about 9percentt.

The government, however, failed to discuss these problems with black representatives.

Even with these eight new black representatives elected from white-majority districts, 68percentt of Congress's 53 black representatives still represent majority-minority districts.

All eight of these new black representatives couldn't have been elected without substantial white support.

Black representatives are vowing a filibuster, or at least a fight.

Many more black representatives are expected from Southern states, he said, replacing traditional Southern Democrats.

That means the Democratic primary will feature an openly gay man, a woman and a black man competing to represent a district that has never elected a gay, female or black representative. .

"Is there an emerging charismatic black representative?

Carson is a black representative and standard-bearer, not for conservatives but for paranoid Americans.

I didn't want to become the "black" representative, or some shining example of diversity.

In 1944, Adam Clayton Powell Jr. won election to the House as the state's first black representative.