WOMEN IN POLITICS

Women need to be in politics. This phrase brings to mind a few choice images, namely backward white males spouting defensively about wage gaps, feminists protesting stores like Hobby Lobby, and Hillary Clinton in a tremendous pantsuit. Hillary Clinton’s path to power has been inspiring to many other women, such as Katrina Jackson, Rosalind Jones and several other local Black women.

There is a reason old white men have held office for so long which is there are not many people rising through the ranks to challenge them. Luckily, there are some trailblazers out there who we can look to and hopef...