Record numbers of Black, Hispanic, Asian, and Native women are serving in state legislatures this year, but remain underrepresented compared to their population.

An installation at the Minnesota State Capitol memorializes the thousands of missing and murdered Native ... Black and Indigenous women who are missing today. Petito, a 22-year-old white woman ...

which was the first and only Black and women of color Army Corps unit deployed overseas during WWII. Their job was to sort and deliver mail to American troops. One of those women was Elkin native ...

Record numbers of Black ... as Native American, Alaska Native or Native Hawaiian hold 44 seats, up from the record 36 set in 2023. When broken down by racial and ethnic lines, only white women ...