Can a black female senator ever be Americas sweetheart?
When she was elected in 1992 Carol Moseley-Braun made history as the first African American woman to win a seat in the US Senate. She didn’t just bring X chromosomes and melanin to those august chambers, though; Moseley-Braun also packed a wide-open smile, a quick wit and a sense of style. The A-List was smitten. Sure, her term in the Senate was marred by allegations of financial impropriety, and, yes, she was defeated in her 1998 re-election bid. But we’ve never stopped missing her — especially when we place her side-by-side with the newer Senate sorors, the overcoiffed and duplicitous Mrs. Dole and the long suffering Mrs. Clinton. This week news broke that Moseley-Braun is poised to file papers for a presidential run. She joins an already crowded Democratic field — and as the longest shot among them — but still, it does our hearts good to see her back in there. If, as SNL recently posited, the positions of US President and Vice President are filled in a manner more or less analogo
