Mia Love, the first Republican Black woman elected to the United States Congress, is dead at 49. The former Utah U.S. representative’s family confirmed her death in a public statement. Love suffered from a years-long battle with glioblastoma brain cancer.
Insane that it took 38 years to go from the first black woman in Congress in 1977 to the first black Republican woman in Congress.
Mia Love would have been 2 years old when Shirley Chisholm entered office.