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SYDNEY KAMLAGER DOVE – THE RIGHT WOMAN, THE RIGHT TIME, AND THE RIGHT CANDIDATE FOR THE CALIFORNIA STATE SENATE

Danny J. Bakewell, Jr. Executive EditorFebruary 18, 2021

Former State Senator and now Los Angeles County Supervisor Holly Mitchell has left Sacramento. While her ascension to the Board of Supervisors has pleased so many of her supporters, it has left a crucial vacancy in the halls of the State Capitol. Not only for a Senator to represent the 30th Senate District with one of the most racially and economically diverse districts in the state, Mitchell’s vacancy also leaves the entire State of California with no African American woman in the California Senate and currently, State Senator Steve Bradford is the only African American Senator representing the entire state.

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150 Years After Ratification of the 15th Amendment, Black Votes Are Still Contested: The Black fight for the franchise

Mel Reeves, Minnesota Spokesman-ReviewMarch 12, 2020

“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.” So reads the 15th Amendment, ratified on February 3, 1870, the third of what came to be known as the Reconstruction amendments.