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Let's face it, this past year has been a dumpster fire.

One of the only highlights was seeing Kamala Harris inaugurated as our new vice president.

Unfortunately, that left us with one small problem.

There are no black women in the United States Senate now that Kamala Harris has ascended to the vice presidency.

No black women in the Senate, but this is the year black women were praised for saving America's ass.

By the way, you're welcome.

The truth is, in the Senate's 230 year history, we've only ever had two black female senators.

Kamala Harris and Carol Mosley-Bron.

You know it's bad when black women have better representation on the bachelor than they do in the US Senate.

I wanted to find out what's going on.

So I called Stephanie Brown-James, co-founder of the Collective Pack, a nationwide organization working to elect black candidates to office.

So black women seem to be doing great in the House of Representatives.

Right, right, right.

But we're having an issue with the Senate.

Huge.

Black women vote more than anybody else in this country.

So many of the issues we're voting on impact our families.

This Senate has been talking about maternal mortality.

And maternal mortality impacts black women more than anybody else. So to not have a black woman saying how this bill should be created and that it should be passed, that's a problem.

It is a problem.

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