Only six black Republicans have been elected to Congress since the caucus was founded: Senator Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts, Representative Gary Franks of Connecticut, Delegate Melvin H. Evans of the Virgin Islands, Representative J. C. Watts of Oklahoma, Representative Allen West of Florida, and Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina.
The author of numerous articles on black women and black politics, Stanford is the former director of the Washington, D.C., Bureau of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and a former Congressional Black Caucus fellow.
Howard University, the Democratic National Convention, the Congressional Black Caucus, Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority are among the elite institutions for which Marc and Taz have orchestrated events.
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Charles Jones, a former member of the Louisiana Senate and a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, represented Sinclair during meetings of the Louisiana Board of Parole.
In 2005, she was the recipient of the American Bar Association Spirit of Excellence Award, and has received the Congressional Black Caucus Chair's Award, International Channel We the People Award, and was named one of the 100 Most Influential Asian Americans of the Decade by A Magazine.
On October 10, 2002, Sanford Bishop was one of only four of 36 Congressional Black Caucus members who voted for the joint resolution authorizing the Iraq War.