Trailblazer: Perseverance in Life and Politics

The first Black woman ever elected to the Senate. The first woman to represent the state of Illinois. The first Black woman to serve as a U.S Ambassador to New Zealand. These are just a few of the “firsts” that Ambassador Carol Moseley Braun can lay claim to since first entering politics in the 1970s. Since then, the self-processed “Black girl from the South side of Chicago” has been shattering ceilings and making history.

Yet her journey to Congress and to international renown was not an ea...