With Ms. #Alsobrooks’s come-from-behind victory in Tuesday’s primary, voters in November will most likely have the chance to double the number of Black women ever elected to the Senate.
Another Democrat, Representative Lisa Blunt #Rochester, is the odds-on favorite to win her party’s nomination in September for an open Senate seat in heavily Democratic Delaware.
If both win in November, for the first time, two Black women will serve in Congress’s upper chamber at the same time.
“It’s been a long time coming,” said Ms. #Moseley#Braun, who became the first Black female senator when she was elected from Illinois in 1992 and now serves as chairwoman of the United States African Development Foundation.
The second, from California, is now the vice president, Kamala #Harris.
A third, Laphonza #Butler, Democrat of California, was appointed to fill a vacant seat, but is not running for re-election
What Happens After a Highway Dies
Bloomberg - April 13, 2024
"The redevelopment of Rochester’s Inner Loop was widely hailed as a model for repairing cities scarred by freeways. But the project’s next phase stands to take a different turn."
Was really bad rainy weather yesterday, so spent the day in the kitchen canning up some stuff.
Made an experimental small batch of ginger raspberry jam as ginger raspberry is my fave kombucha flavor to make. This batch set perfectly but I need to use WAY more ginger, couldn't taste the ginger at all. Still a tasty raspberry jam though!
If you are in #Rochester, NY during the eclipse (and hopefully not getting gouged on hotel fees), there will be a viewing party for visually impaired folks: https://EclipseFestival.org
Audio darts, beep baseball, tactile map building, eclipse audio description, LightSound for eclipse sonification, etc.
Seems nifty. I won’t be there, tho, since leaving my backyard in Buffalo seems like a bad idea.
13 Dec 1652: Charles II makes Henry Wilmot Royalist commander & co-exile the 1st Earl of #Rochester#otd This was the first peerage bestowed in his reign.