Katherine Tate

Katherine Tate, Jennifer Garcia, and Christopher Stout November 30, 2022

In a first, House Democrats elected a Black leader. Here’s what that means.

Hakeem Jeffries will be the next House minority leader. That could affect national politics in these four ways.

Katherine Tate March 22, 2022

The House might pass a long-ignored bill to study reparations for slavery. Why now?

My research looks at how Black legislators changed the Democratic Party — and how becoming party insiders changed them.