There are no Black women in the Senate. Will Rep. Terri Sewell run for a seat?

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Rep. Terri Sewell of Alabama speaks about voting rights legislation in 2019. (PHOTO BY MICHAEL BROCHSTEIN/SOPA IMAGES/LIGHTROCKET VIA GETTY IMAGES)

With the planned retirement of Republican Sen. Richard Shelby, Sewell says, ‘I’m doing my homework.’

Errin Haines
Editor-at-large

Published Feb. 23, 2021 at 5:35pm

Alabama Rep. Terri Sewell said she expects to make a decision “very soon” about whether she will run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Republican Richard Shelby in 2022.

Sewell is the first Black woman elected to Congress from Alabama and the only Democrat in the state’s House delegation. Among the considerations factoring into her decision are her commitment to her district, which includes Selma, and issues including voting rights and the need for more Black women to be represented at the highest levels of power.

“We’re going to decide sooner than later. I’m doing my homework,” Sewell said in an interview with The 19th.

Any Democrat would have a tough road to election in Alabama, which went for former President Donald Trump by 25 points in 2020. The only Democrat to represent Alabama in the Senate since 1997 is Doug Jones. He won a special election to the Senate in 2017 — largely with the support of Black women — but lost the seat last year.

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1. It's alabama

If she runs, there will still be no Black women in the Senate from alabama and The people of Selma and the surrounding area will loose a strong member of Congress