Two Black women will serve together in the Senate for the first time from NPR Rachel Treisman

Left: Maryland Democratic Senate candidate Angela Alsobrooks speaks following a campaign stop on Oct. 22, in Kettering, Md. Right: Democratic Delaware Senate candidate state Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester speaks during an election night watch party.

Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland and Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware, both Democrats, won their Senate races on Tuesday — doubling the number of Black women who have been elected to the chamber.

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