In an interview with director Ava DuVernay, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) talked about how she and other congresswomen ― especially the group of barrier-breaking, progressive freshmen ― support each other in their work in Washington, D.C.“There are lots of text threads. There is a lot of hugging and high-fiving,” Omar said in the conversation published Wednesday in Interview magazine. was her state’s first black congresswoman. “It has a negative weight.”While the 116th Congress sworn in earlier this year was the nation’s most diverse ever, the legislative body is still overwhelmingly white and male. In this environment, the new crop of “very untraditional members,” as Omar put it, find their own ways to support each other.

Source: Huffington Post April 04, 2019 20:15 UTC